Buhl Planetarium Chick Curator Revisits Chickens at Carnegie Library

On 2012 March 24 (11:00 a.m. EDT Saturday morning), the historic West End Branch of The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh hosted a public program on urban chicken farming. Among the attendees of this program was West End Friends of the Library member Glenn A. Walsh. From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Walsh created and served as Curator of the "BioCorner" Embryology Exhibit at Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science (a.k.a. Buhl Science Center) in Allegheny Center, where chicks (and occasionally ducklings) were hatched in front of visitors' eyes every weekend, year-round.

Arguably, at least during modern times, Buhl Planetarium conducted the first urban chicken farming within the City of Pittsburgh.

The following is an excerpt from the 2012 April issue of the monthly electronic newsletter, Best of the West, produced by the West End Branch of The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. This excerpt shows a photograph of Mr. Walsh holding a mature chicken, during the March 24 program.

  West End Newsletter 

Serving the neighborhoods of Elliott, Crafton Heights, the West End and beyond.

CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK TO READ THE ENTIRE NEWSLETTER:

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CLICK THIS LINK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 1980s CHICKEN EMBRYOLOGY EXHIBIT AT PITTSBURGH'S ORIGINAL BUHL PLANETARIUM:

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Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
Friends of the Zeiss < http://friendsofthezeiss.org >
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* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
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* Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear:
  < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com >
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries:
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* Civil War Museum of Andrew Carnegie Free Library:
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* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh:
  < http://inclinedplane.tripod.com >
* Public Transit:
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