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Category: Haycock Township

Eulogy for my friend, the adventure senator

March 23, 2021 carllavo Leave a comment

Stewart Greenleaf had a fondness for running whitewater rapids. I’ll never forget the time Stewart Greenleaf and I jumped off…

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Posted in: Haycock Township, Willow Grove Filed under: Francis E. Walter Reservoir, Hannah's Ugly Mug tavern, Lake Nockamixon, Lehigh Gorge, Lehigh River, Tohickon Creek, white water rafting

‘Two Forgotten Souls’

August 7, 2020 carllavo Leave a comment

After 122 years, a Nockamixon farmer keeps vigil for officers shot by an outlaw. Route 412 is one of the…

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Posted in: Haycock Township, springfield township, Springtown, Upper Bucks Filed under: Bursonville, constable, funeral, Haycock Mountain posse, Reading Times, Springtown Weekly Times

Cloak and dagger mailbag

March 20, 2020 carllavo Leave a comment

More on Sellersville’s Nazis, Quakertown’s spy and a notorious Bensalem double agent. My recent column on Bucks County spies turned…

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Posted in: Bensalem, Haycock Township, Sellersville Filed under: Adolph Hitler, Agent 13, Alger Hiss, American Fuehrer, Deutschhorst Country Club, German-American Bund, Growden Mansion, Hede Massing, Nazi, Pike's Peak, Soviet Union, Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, Zebulon Pike

Skyfall over Bucks

November 30, 2018 carllavo Leave a comment

The day an aeronaut fell from the sky and shook up Applebachsville. I once contemplated flying in the Great American…

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Posted in: Haycock Township Filed under: aeronaut, Applebachsville, Daily Graphic newspaper, Great American Balloon Race, P.T. Barnum, Reading, tight rope walking, ventiloquist

Windows into History

November 25, 2018 carllavo Leave a comment

Ancient Bucks home recalls Revolutionary War patriots, American educators, Paris in the 1920s and WWII spies. A stone farmhouse built…

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Posted in: Haycock Township Filed under: Alice B. Toklas, Ernest Hemingway, Lake Nockamixon, Paris, Revolutionary War, World War II

Fact vs. Fiction

October 16, 2018 carllavo Leave a comment

Was New Hope named for a comedian’s family? Did Buckingham become Bristol Township? And more. Sorting fact from fiction in…

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Posted in: Bristol Township, Haycock Township, New Hope, Uncategorized Filed under: Benjamin Parry, Bob Hope, Bucks County Playhouse, Haycock Mountain, New Hope Flour Mill, Rocky Bearry, William Penn

To save a son

January 11, 2018 carllavo Leave a comment

How an Upper Bucks village got its start as the“Metropolis of Haycock”. Cliffside Malibu in my native California is where…

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Posted in: Haycock Township Filed under: Applebachsville, German Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Mennonite Church, Lake Tohee, Methodist ministers, Old Bethlehem Road, Paul, Stokes Family, Stokes Meadow

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