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A Weekend Along the Bucks County Genius Belt

by Louise Feder on September 16, 2019

I don’t know about you, but back-to-school season always makes me want to return to a favorite subject. So, what better time to spend a weekend along the Bucks County Genius Belt? A term used in the first half of the 20 th century to describe the area’s wealth of artists, craftspeople, authors, and playwrights, it’s fair to say Bucks County’s cultural legacy is at the very heart of our region’s…

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What’s Up This Weekend: 12 + Beer Fests to Attend, Live Music to Enjoy and Sunflowers to See!

by Jenna Scull on August 21, 2019

Listen to live music at Shady Brook Farm, grab your friends and head to Fonthill Castle Beer Fest or snap some Instagram worthy pictures at Hellerick’s Sunflower Festival! Check out our guide below for details on this weekend’s must-see events around the County. Stay up-to-date on what’s coming up next week with our Upcoming Events calendar. Friday, August 23 Yardley Restaurant Week Experience…

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Walking through Time at the Doylestown Historic Cemetery

by Brooke Hillman on June 20, 2017

Call me morbid, but I have always been fascinated by cemeteries. Maybe it’s the writer in me who is intrigued by the stories that lies behind each of the names carved into the polished stone, or the history nerd in me who is drawn to the dates marking the lives of those who walked the Earth at a different time...I’ve visited cemeteries from Europe to Bermuda and throughout the U.S. (I said it was okay to call me morbid). However, their history and their stories still don’t stack up to those found in one of my favorite graveyards – the Doylestown Historic Cemetery…

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Capturing Aerial Images of Bucks County

by Paul Loftland on December 13, 2016

I needed to get a bird’s eye view of landmarks and points of interest in Bucks County. This is possible with technology using unmanned aerial vehicles, a.k.a., drones, but I wanted to show a different view of Bucks County by getting high in the sky while taking video, 360 Virtual Reality panoramas and photos of locations in Bucks County. Since some areas are no-fly zones for drones, the only solution to capture these images was to take them from a helicopter…

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Fenton F.'s #BucksCountyMoment: Exploring Doylestown and New Hope

November 3, 2014

Me and my girlfriend Alexis decided to take an afternoon one Sunday for a drive around Bucks County. We stopped in New Hope first. We go on daytrips often so wanted to walk around Doylestown since it was a beautiful day. We stopped at Ninas Waffles and Ice Cream and had an amazing snack. We walked over to Fonthill and we just missed the last tour, so we walked around the grounds and took some…

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