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Month: October 2017

A Cry in the Wilderness

October 30, 2017 carllavo

Uncle Griff’s intuitive gift leads to a lonely road on a dark, rainy night. You seldom found Griffith Lloyd at…

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Posted in: Langhorne Filed under: Fallsington, Five Mile Woods, historic langhorne, Quaker minister, Ranulph Bye

The Fighting Quaker

October 23, 2017 carllavo

A statue to the Father of the U.S. Marine Corps is proposed for Bristol’s riverside park. Last August, exciting news…

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Posted in: Bristol Borough Filed under: American Revoluiton, Bahamas, Delaware River, Dunk's Ferry, Major Samuel Nicholas, Nassau, Philadelphia, Tun Tavern, U.S. Marine Corps

The Sequoias of the East

October 16, 2017 carllavo

American chestnuts once reigned supreme over Bucks County and then vanished. During our California honeymoon, Mary Anne and I drove…

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Posted in: American chestnut Filed under: Big Trees State Park, blight, Bowman's Hill Wildlife Preserve, Sequoias, Solebury, Squalus submarine

‘Crazy Fitch’ deserved better

October 9, 2017 carllavo

Warminster man who invented the steamboat in Bucks County had a tragic end. Folks here have long lionized one man’s…

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Posted in: Warminster Filed under: Bristol, Burlington, Cleremont, Delaware River, John Fitch, museum, Philadelphia, Robert Fulton, steamboat, Trenton

The Poconos of Bucks

October 2, 2017 carllavo 2d Comments

Finland in Upper Bucks was once a tourism hot spot for Philly’s “fancy people”. Mary Anne gave me a sideways…

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