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Building rail trails, restoring cabins, and creating communities [Video]

A man works to create more rail trails, while a couple restores the cabin of writer and early civil rights figure, James Weldon Johnson

WHEELS IN WESTERN MASS. WE CHECK BACK IN ON THE ONGOING, IF VERY DIFFERENT LABORS OF SOME LONGTIME FRIENDS. THE HAPPIEST PLACES ON EARTH ARE PLACES WITH LOTS OF BIKES. FOR CRAIG DELLA PENA, BIKES ARE ONLY PART OF HIS HAPPY PLACE. BIKES ON RAIL TRAILS THAT CAN TRANSFORM AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS THE GOSPEL HE’S PREACHED FOR DECADES ALL OVER NEW ENGLAND. HE AND HIS WIFE KATHY, STILL MAINTAIN THEIR DELIGHTFUL SUGAR MAPLE TRAIL SITE IN IN FLORENCE, MASS. LOCATED NO SURPRISE, A SCANT EIGHT FEET FROM A RAIL TRAIL AND WHERE A SHED FULL OF BIKES AWAIT THEIR GUESTS. NICE PERK FOR AN INN ON A RAIL TRAIL. A NORTHAMPTON REALTOR WHOSE NICHE IS PROPERTIES ALONG RAIL TRAILS, DELLA PENNY’S PASSION IS HELPING TO …

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