From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review (Nice hats for orphans)-Kenneth Martin never liked fried eggplant.
When the vegetable was served at the Pittsburgh orphanage where he lived, he folded it in his napkin and stuffed it in his pants pocket to be flushed down the toilet after dinner.
But the tell-tale grease spot on his trousers always gave him away.
"I knew a spanking was coming. ... But I hated eggplant," said Martin, 76, a retired truck owner/operator from South Park.
Martin was 4 and his brother Charles was 6 in 1936 when they went to live at the Episcopal Church Home in Lawrenceville after their parents died. The home opened 150 years ago in a small rented house Downtown, an occasion that will be celebrated this weekend with a reunion of orphans.
The building that housed the orphanage for most of its history — and is a UPMC senior community called Canterbury Place — has occupied the same spot at 40th Street and Penn Avenue since 1861.
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