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Back from the Past

January 16, 2018 carllavo

The ‘ghost house’ at Scammell’s Corner recaptures its former glory in Lower Makefield. Not long ago, the old Scammell Mansion…

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Posted in: Lower Makefield Filed under: blue marble, mansion, Scammell China, Scammell's Corner, 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…

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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

Misbegotten Spies

January 5, 2018 carllavo

 The story behind the handing to two spies in Morrisville 5 years after Washington crossed the Delaware. John Mason was…

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Posted in: Morrisville Filed under: george washington, major gen. lord sterling, mutiny, pennsylvania line, philadelphia light horse brigade, spies, Summerseat

The travails of ‘Adventure Girl’

December 31, 2017 carllavo

Bucks County’s Joan Lowell was a rising star in the silent era of Hollywood movies until . . . I’ve…

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Posted in: Solebury Township Filed under: autobiography, Berkeley, Cradle of the Deep, Hollywood, horse farm, Joan Lowell, New Hope, Simon & Schuster

Little House in the Woods

December 18, 2017 carllavo 1 Comment

Plans hatch to restore a precious relic defaced by vandals behind Fonthill Castle in Doylestown. Preserving history is difficult. Just…

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Posted in: Doylestown Filed under: arboretum, Doylestown Nature Club, Fonthill, Henry Chapman Mercer, Kyle McKoy

Washington slept here

December 4, 2017 carllavo 3d Comments

By George, he really did sleep around in Bucks County during the Revolution. There’s a display case of George S.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: American Revolution, Black Bass Inn, Continental Army, Hannah Harris house, Hannah Moland House, Jonathan kFell House, Sam Merrick House, Summerseat, William Keath house

Our Sipaessinglandt link

November 27, 2017 carllavo

Lower Bucks County nearly became an oddly-named bit of Sweden. It could have been the Sipaessinglandt Plum Pickers marching up…

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Posted in: Falls Township Filed under: Delaware River estuary, Falls of the Delaware, Mohawk Indians, Pennsbury Manor, Peter Lindestrom, Sipaessinglandt, Sweden, William Penn

The Playwicki Adventure

November 20, 2017 carllavo

Our search for the wondrous stones of a vanished Native American town. This was an adventure to remember for grandson…

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Posted in: Playwicki Farm Park Filed under: Bridgetown Pike, Bucks County Conservancy, Franklin Marble, Lower Southampton Township, monument, quarry, William Penn

Cowboy Heaven

November 13, 2017 carllavo

Bucks County was once the Country and Western Capital of the East Coast. It was on “Grandma’s Mountain” in Hayward, Calif.…

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Posted in: Quakertown Filed under: broadcast pioneers, county and western music, cowboys, doylestown township, gene autry, milford township, Rex Trailer, Roy Rogers, Sally Starr, Sleepy Hollow Ranch

Of wolves and coyotes, oh my!

November 6, 2017 carllavo

Legends linger at Solebury’s storied Burn Bridle Hill. Early in my daughter’s life I told her of my childhood encounter…

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Posted in: Solebury Township Filed under: British, Burn Bridle Hill, Coyotes, Five Springs Pond, Ghost Wolf, Malcolm Crooks, Revolutionary War, Wolves

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