People interested in touring the remnants of the former Bethlehem Steel plant, and receiving the inside stories about what it was really like to work there, may now take one-hour walking tours guided by the men and women who made the steel that built America.

The Steelworkers' Archives led walking tour opportunities started on July 5 with three evening tours, which started at the ArtsQuest Center. Past Archives president Frank Behum, a former steelworker conducted the initial tour, accompanied by former steelworkers such as Tom Cooper, Jerry Werkheiser and Dolores Boyko.

They walked in the shadows of blast furnaces, passed by the hulking remains of the Iron Foundry, and walked between buildings that once hummed with activity that etched steel making efforts upon America's industrial age.

What makes these tours special are the stories that detail individual experiences working in the Bethlehem plant. Welder Dolores Boyko related the challenges of being a female in a man's world, while Behum explained how the term "pistol packing mommas" came into play during World War II when women filled many of the plant security positions.