'Doing OK’ — But Not Just Fine

'Doing OK’ — But Not Just Fine

WEST NEWTON, Pa. — Bill "Smokey" Baird is tinkering with a customer's bike in his shop along the Great American Passage trail connecting Homestead with Washington, D.C.

A family of seven walks in to rent bikes for the day. The owner of West Newton Bicycle Shop, and of an auto-body shop across the road, sends them on their way with a variety of bikes.

"People come from all over the world to this little shop," he says, his hands and face oil-smudged from working on cars and bikes. "I've had customers from New Zealand, South Africa ... heck, the former governor...