Skip to content
Bucks County Adventures

Bucks County Adventures

by Carl LaVO
  • Home
  • About Carl LaVO
  • Reader Feedback
  • Events
  • Additional Books by Carl LaVO
  • Columns
  • Contact

Category: Haycock Township

Eulogy for my friend, the adventure senator

March 23, 2021 carllavo

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

Continue Reading →

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

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

Continue Reading →

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

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

Continue Reading →

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

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

Continue Reading →

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

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

Continue Reading →

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

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

Continue Reading →

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

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

Continue Reading →

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

Recent Posts

  • The rare treasure that is Cuttaloosa Valley
  • If I only had a million . . .
  • The Tinker, Bucket Lady and Rag Man of Milford

Categories

  • American chestnut
  • Andalusia
  • Bedminster
  • Bensalem
  • Bordentown
  • Bristol Borough
  • Bristol Township
  • Buckingham Township
  • Bucks County
  • Bucks County Children's Museum
  • Burlington County
  • Burlington Island
  • Doylestown
  • Doylestown Township
  • Durham Township
  • East Rockhill Township
  • Edison
  • Fairless Hills
  • Falls Township
  • Feasterville
  • Hatboro
  • Haycock Township
  • Hilltown
  • Historic Fallsington
  • Hulmeville
  • Ivyland Borough
  • Lambertville
  • Langhorne
  • Levittown
  • Lower Makefield
  • Lumberville
  • Middletown
  • Milford
  • Morrisville
  • N.J.
  • New Britain Township
  • New Hope
  • Newtown Borough
  • Newtown Township
  • Nochamixon
  • Northampton
  • Penndel
  • Perkasie
  • Philadelphia
  • Place Names
  • Playwicki Farm Park
  • Plumstead Township
  • Princeton
  • Quakertown
  • Richboro
  • Roy Rogers Trigger
  • Rushland
  • Sellersville
  • Solebury Township
  • springfield township
  • Springtown
  • Street Railways
  • Tinicum Township
  • Tullytown
  • Uncategorized
  • Upper Bucks
  • Upper Makefield
  • Warminster
  • Warwick
  • Warwick Township
  • Washington Crossing
  • West Rockhill Township
  • Willow Grove
  • Wrightstown Township
  • Yardley

Search by Date

March 2023
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Mar    

Archives

  • March 2022
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017

Pages

  • #689 (no title)
  • About Carl LaVO
  • Additional Books by Carl LaVO
  • Columns
  • Contact
  • Events
  • Gallery
  • Home
  • What they’re saying about “Bucks County Adventures”
Copyright © 2023 Bucks County Adventures