On this episode of Our American Stories, sports journalist, Jim O'Brian, tells us the story of the founding owner of the Steelers, Legend Art Rooney, Sr. Joy Neal Kidney, author of Leora's Letters, tells us the story of the many diseases people contracted during the great depression and how they carried on. Keycap artist, known as Tiny Makes Things, shares her story of when she decided that she wanted to quit her job and start her own business making artisan keycaps for mechanical keyboards.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Two Funerals, One Steelers Legend: THE Art Rooney, Sr.

25:00 - Dreaded Diseases of the Great Depression

35:00 - She Quit Her High Paying Job To Make Crafts