Here's a piece of Pittsburgh history you may not know: The International Jugglers Association was formed in a coffee shop at the William Penn Hotel in 1947. It was an attempt to save juggling as the age of Vaudeville drew to a close. These days, juggling is alive and well in Western Pennsylvania. Jugglers filled the gymnasium at Quaker Valley Middle School recently for the Not Quite Pittsburgh Juggling Festival II. Whether juggling will remain as an art form is, obviously, up in the air.
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Photographer Steve Mellon takes several pictures over a brief period of time, then stitches them together in a computer.
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