Pine Creek Rail Trail
Articles about the Pine Creek Rail Trail
David Ira Kagan, a retired English and mathematics teacher, has lived in Pine Creek’s southernmost village of Torbert since 1991. He has written and published numerous articles on Pine Creek Valley, both of its history and of its life today.
He has also written and published of the past and of the present about people, places and events in the wider Lycoming and Clinton County area, mostly for the Webb Weekly and the Williamsport Sun-Gazette.
His three books, published in the “Images of America” series by the Arcadia Publishing Company, include his 2008 Pine Creek Villages, Sugar Valley Villages (published in 2011), and Middletown Borough (available as of July 20, 2009). The latter is about his hometown, which is near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
April 24, 2019
The Railroad Background of the Pine Creek Rail Trail
On May 9, 1883, the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railroad was completed through Pine Creek Valley. On that...
April 24, 2011
Experiencing The Pine Creek Rail Trail In Early April
What is so very special about bicycling, walking or jogging along the Pine Creek Rail Trail at the beginning of...
March 24, 2011
Time To Join Me On The Rail Trail
Out on March 13th on the Pine Creek Rail Trail, I rode my bicycle for the first time since January...
December 1, 2010
An Old Cemetery Filled With The Young
Utceter Cemetery, in western Lycoming County along Pine Creek just off the rail-trail one mile south of Slate Run, contains...
October 1, 2010
Pine Creek Valley Suffering From Marcellus Shale Gas Invasion Of Trucks
On Wednesday, October 27, 2010, I sat on a folding chair at the White Tail Parking Access of the Pine...
July 27, 2010
July 26th Ride of 117 Miles
At 8 a.m. on this beautiful summer day, I bicycled from my Torbert Village home northward, with the intent of...
July 1, 2010
Visit with Bob and Dottie Webber
On July 27, 2010, this writer, his wife and two friends experienced the pleasure of visiting the legendary Webbers at...
July 1, 2009
Drowned Rat Dave
Bicycling through rain. Through a downpour. Through a torrent. Through a deluge! The day? Thursday, July 23, 2009. The forecast...
November 1, 2008
Historical Sign at Ramsey Village
If you’ve bicycled past the village of Ramsey on the Pine Creek Rail-Trail since mid-summer of 2008, then you couldn’t...
September 1, 2008
Bicycling From Dawn To Dusk
Well, I did it! I bicycled along the Pine Creek Rail-Trail from my Torbert Village home to the northern terminus...
December 1, 2007
Blackwell Is Still The Blackwells’ Village
Pine Creek Valley is a wonderful scenic destination in Pennsylvania that everyone should visit. Pine Creek Valley itself begins near...
September 15, 2007
Beware The Snakeroot!
It’s a beautiful, native, white-flowered perennial herb. But it’s a poisonous plant (some consider it a weed) that can even...