CARNEGIE – It’s a Wednesday in mid-October, and mid-morning light spills through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Woolly Bear Books and Gifts, drenching some titles in sunshine, casting others in shadow. Wooden shelves set against bold orange and white walls are heavy with books that ...

When a crowd gathered on the floral-painted bridge near Carnegie’s historic Husler Building on the evening of Sept. 17, the crowd was dry and the bridge, safely many yards above the creek. But 20 years ago to the date, many of those gathered had been soaked to the bone, and the bridge itself ...