{"id":64143,"date":"2026-10-04T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64143"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:00:28","slug":"people-of-elk-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64143","title":{"rendered":"People of Elk Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor, John, has a long history of custodial jobs, interspersed with occasional gardening work. Along the way he&#8217;s learned a lot. History of upstate New York where he lived in Rome on the Erie Canal. Horticultural knowledge like the care and pruning of roses. Environmental issues through his brother&#8217;s work as Sierra Club staff in Missoula, Montana.<\/p>\n<p>John does volunteer work here on the grounds of Elk Run.<\/p>\n<p>Marsha, an elementary school teacher has lived in Evergreen for sixty-four years.\u00a0 She eats at a familiar table with Mike who lived in her neighborhood as did Ruth who sits at the table across the way. They didn&#8217;t know each other.<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s from Kansas City. Another Mike from Texas. One woman, who never gave me her name says she gets moved a lot. She likes Elk Run. One of the best according to her. I&#8217;ve met others. Paul. Gayle, originally from New Hampshire. Melanie who has dragons on her door. She volunteered that she leaves her door open and &#8220;blasts country music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slowly meeting people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My neighbor, John, has a long history of custodial jobs, interspersed with occasional gardening work. Along the way he&#8217;s learned a lot. History of upstate New York where he lived in Rome on the Erie Canal. Horticultural knowledge like the care and pruning of roses. Environmental issues through his brother&#8217;s work as Sierra Club staff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People of Elk Run<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4421,4394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elk-run","category-fourth-phase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64148,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64143\/revisions\/64148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}