SALENA ZITO: Wines and mines in the Mon Valley. “When you think of river towns like Monongahela or Donora or Monessen, you think about hard-working men who toiled in factories or coal mines to provide for their families, or the women who scrubbed down the walls and baseboards daily to keep their humble family homes clean from the dirty air. The Ripepi family has been there, as grocers and as owners of a mining company — and now as owners of a winery perched above those Mon Valley cities that kept so many generations fed, clothed and moving up and out to test out the durability of the American dream.”