{"id":1699,"date":"1997-06-08T01:43:52","date_gmt":"1997-06-08T01:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dev.karst.org\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2023-11-19T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T17:28:31","slug":"tom-metzgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karst.org\/index.php\/1997\/06\/08\/tom-metzgar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Metzgar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u2022 NSS 24673 RL, FE PH \u2022 Chairman \u2022 Bear Cave and Trout Run Woods Preserve Manager \u2022 Danielson Center\/Library Manager<\/h3>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"531.3279999999999\">Tom Metzgar, NSS 24673, lives in his native Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn State in 1981, and retired in 2022.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"595.1839999999997\">A founding member of Loyalhanna Grotto and MAKC, he also belongs to Greater Allentown Grotto, Pittsburgh Grotto, York Grotto, and the American Spelean History Association. Besides caving, Tom enjoys books, botany, forestry, genealogy, herpetology, local history, railroads, reading, and writing. He likes looking at rocks and what lives on and underneath them.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"583.4239999999999\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"583.4239999999999\">Tom and his wife Kim are well known in the caving community as owners of Bear Cave on Chestnut Ridge, about four miles south of MAKC\u2019s Blairsville, PA Headquarters, and near their cottage in Derry Township\u2019s Ridgeview Park. Tom is a familiar face in MAKC\u2019s booth on Vendor\u2019s Row at the annual Old Timer\u2019s Reunion held every Labor Day Weekend in Randolph County, West Virginia.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:loyalhanna@aol.com\">Email Tom. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 NSS 24673 RL, FE PH \u2022 Chairman \u2022 Bear Cave and Trout Run Woods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tom Metzgar - Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karst.org\/index.php\/1997\/06\/08\/tom-metzgar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Metzgar - 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