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Month: October 2017

A Cry in the Wilderness

October 30, 2017 carllavo Leave a comment

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 Leave a comment

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 Leave a comment

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 Leave a comment

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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