The Gregg Avenue Neighborhood
My friend Troy Bogdan has a YouTube Channel with the name “Farmer Troy” that regularly has a wide variety of interesting videos. Recently he posted one entitled “Sweet Gum Trees of Bridgeville, Pa.”, documenting a well-known group of trees, many of which were scheduled to be cut down. The southeast (uphill) side of Gregg Avenue boasts a stand of twenty mature sweet gum trees, primarily known as the source of disruption for the adjacent, very old stone slab sidewalk. Having learned that many of them were doomed, Troy walked along the sidewalk, filming the trees. In passing, he mentioned that…