Laurel Run

In southwestern Pennsylvania, about an hour's drive east of Pittsburgh, there is a hiking trail known as the "Ghost Town Trail" that connects a series of old ghost towns that were once bustling homes to coal mines and mills as recently as the early 1900s. Now the towns of Wehrum, Scott Glen, and Lackawanna, to name a few, are no longer inhabited, and their buildings and roads are slowly being reclaimed by nature. However, their history is forever etched into the landscape, with some impressively large structures still standing. Laurel Run is the name of one of the picturesque streams that flows into the river that runs by each of the ghost towns, Blacklick Creek. With frequent rapids and waterfalls, the waterways seem often at the same time serene and agitated, and they feed the lush greenery and diverse fauna that fill the valley. This lyrical song is an ode to the natural beauty of this region.