In September, buckle up for an evening filled with nostalgia as award-winning journalists Marylynne Pitz and Laura Malt Schneiderman reveal the indelible mark that the Kaufmann family’s department store and philanthropy have left on the city of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. As co-authors of the book, Kaufmann’s: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store, they will trace the lives of the Kaufmann brothers who rose from hardscrabble salesmen to Gilded Age multimillionaires. The Kaufmann program is sure to spark countless fond memories of meeting under the Kaufmann’s clock, eating at the TikTok, or just shopping at the famed department store

         In time for Halloween, Todd DePastino presents the chilling case of “The Salem Witch Trials.” It began on a cold January day in 1692 with two young girls telling fortunes in the kitchen of Rev. Samuel Parris. The girls began barking, twisting, writhing in pain, as if in the grip of an evil force. “These Children were bitten and pinched by invisible agents,” concluded a doctor. A clear case of witchcraft. By the time it was all over, 19 had been hanged, five had died in prison, and 200 others had been accused. Come hear the gruesome details and consider whether this was, in fact, a case “mass hysteria” or something more sinister.