EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Renz No. 1 was enshrouded in doubt 20 years ago, when Range Resources was attempting to unleash natural gas from the well through hydraulic fracturing. Workers had ...

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 ...