Jethro was a dog of the German Shepherd persuasion, I had adopted at 2 years old from a rescue in the Poconos, weighing in at 120 pounds of pure guardian fur angel.

Amos Stone House to the Mesquito Grille. In 1849 Amos Stone (1819-1897), a shoemaker by trade, bought the property at the intersection of West State Street and West Court Street for $200 and built a house.

Residents at The Willows of Living Branches spent weeks creating a 7-foot tactile mural that will be permanently displayed at Souderton Mennonite Homes’ Memory Care neighborhood.

The Doylestown Plan for Self-Help Renewal. Operation ‘64 resulted from a group of farsighted Doylestown merchants who refused to “modernize” their historic town center.

I’ve developed a theory since I started writing this column almost a year ago. A person will have many stories to tell in the span of their lifetime, but the most important two will invariably be the story of how they found their true work and the story of how they found their true love.

Neighborhood stores are disappearing at an alarming rate. I used to love going to places where the proprietor knew my name, especially when I needed some kind of advice.

In 1888, Washington Atlee Burpee (1858-1915) purchased about 100 acres of land outside of Doylestown and named it Fordhook Farm, after his ancestor’s estate in England.

The more I listen to the stories people tell of their lives, the more proof I continually find that resilience is crucial to all, but especially to entrepreneurs.

“CROWDS JAM NEW SHOPPING CENTER” screamed the banner headline on the front page of The Daily Intelligencer, Oct. 15, 1959.

Cecily Laidman started taking voice lessons in high school. She studied to be an opera singer. But she says, “I realized I couldn’t keep a straight face for that long!” I know what she means. I love musicals, if not opera, but the absurdity of someone breaking into song at every pivotal moment in life, makes me giggle uncomfortably through my enjoyment.

During the early summers of the 20th century, a group of Philadelphia artists took the trolley north to the Village of Edison and practiced their art in an old barn referred to as “the Shack.” This group of men called themselves “The Scumblers.”

If you want to know what it’s like for someone to wish you dead, try writing a personal check with a line behind you at Giant. We live in a time when speed is paramount. It wasn’t always like that.

In 1808, Septimus Evans from Warwick Township bought a 2-acre building lot at the corner of North Main and Broad streets for $250.

A playwright creates a world in their mind. Later an audience lives in the world the playwright created and feels what the playwright wanted them to feel and draws the conclusions the playwright wanted them to draw. Hopefully.

Thank you, Ted Williams, for your recent Guest Opinion in the Bucks County Herald (“PA can shed the shame of live pigeon shoots,” May 30).

Doylestown and Newtown townships were two communities hit hard by that curious and widespread fever known as the silkworm craze, which prevailed for more than a decade in the first part of the 19th century. Generally, the craze extended from 1830 to 1844.

Sometimes passion is all that’s required to create a successful business, and formal education and training is less important or not necessary at all.

The early Quakers who came to Bucks County were primarily farmers; therefore they usually located their meeting houses in rural areas rather than in towns.

A small group of Wesley Enhanced Living residents from the Doylestown and Upper Moreland communities participated in a racing experience at the Poconos Raceway May 17 – proving that speed knows no age limits. Among those who took part in WEL Wish event was Chuck Lang, a resident of Wesley Enhanced Living Doylestown.

U.S. News & World Report has named 24 residences of Legend Senior Living among its “Best of” for 2024 in their respective categories.