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A postcard from my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, when it was one of biggest steel-making centers in the United States (the ‘Ostrava’ of the USA). The city was settled in the early-20th century by waves of immigrants from Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and other countries, but as a kid I was mostly oblivious to these cultural differences.