Kane came to Pittsburgh and never quite left.

An obsessive of the region's industrial past, Kane has spent years tracing the stories that didn't make it into the history books — the workers who built the steel empire, the communities that formed around the mills, and the neighborhoods still living with that legacy today.

Stories of Steel grew out of a simple belief: that the best way to understand a place is to walk it. These tours are Kane's attempt to bring the history off the page and onto the streets where it actually happened — the riverbanks where Pinkertons landed, the avenues where steelworkers built their lives, the libraries Carnegie left behind as monuments to his own complicated conscience.

Pittsburgh's labor history is American history. Kane just wants to make sure people know where to look for it.