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City Briefs: 9/24/01
Monday, September 24, 2001
Karl "Chuck" Smith, assistant superintendent of two historic sites in Fayette County, will become the site administrator at Fort Pitt Museum, Downtown, and Bushy Run Battlefield in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, today.
Smith, 50, is assistant superintendent of Fort Necessity National Battlefield, near Farmington, and Friendship Hill in Point Marion, the home of Albert Gallatin.
He will remain an employee of the federal government but report to the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, which operates the museum in Point State Park, Downtown.
Previously, Smith, was park technician, ranger and chief ranger at Castilo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Fla., Petersburg National Battlefield in Petersburg, Va., and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs through Virginia and North Carolina.
For the past 12 years, Smith has worked at Fort Necessity in Fayette County.
For the next four months, MaryEllen Snyder will serve as acting superintendent of Fort Necessity National Battlefield and Friendship Hill. Snyder previously served as chief of interpretation at those museums.
An accident on Maytide Street claimed a second life yesterday when John Tucke of Brookline died in Mercy Hospital, the Allegheny County coroner's office said.
Tucke, 20, was a passenger in a car driven by Samantha A. Musico of the North Side when it crashed Saturday morning along the hilly street that leads from Brownsville Road in Carrick to Route 51 in Overbrook.
Musico, 18, was dead at the scene, while Tucke was hospitalized in critical condition. He died of head injuries.
Authorities said Musico lost control of her car and it went up an embankment and into a stand of trees.
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