FROM THE LOCALS BLOG

There is a flurry of festivals happening all around Bucks County! Join the party at Pride Fest, indulge in a village-wide strawberry celebration and peruse beautiful, handcrafted tiles from around the country in one weekend…

Tired of being cooped up in your house, waiting for the snow to melt? Good news: “snowmageddon” is finally over and there is a whole lot to check out this weekend around Bucks County…

There are a ton of new art exhibitions, theatrical productions and live performances debuting this weekend in Bucks County…

The Mercer Museum Holiday Open House is one of my favorite events of the season. Wandering through the museum and Henry Mercer’s treasures, enjoying live holiday performances, sipping hot cider by a fire outside – it’s the epitome of holidays in Bucks County and the best part is it’s completely free…

Looking for a way to honor our country’s veterans and active-military? Bucks County is brimming with parades and commemorative ceremonies that recognize the courage and sacrifice of local veterans…

With the end of October comes the last hoorah for spooky celebrations, but it also means new fall festivals and holiday festivities are on the horizon…

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…

The second annual Bucks County Plein Air Festival will take place from June 5-11 and we’re so excited! From Monday through Thursday, look for artists laced about the county setting up their easels and painting beautiful landscapes, streetscapes, people, or whatever else captures their imagination…

Let’s be honest – who wouldn’t want to enjoy a bite and a brew after navigating through a castle? Just over 100 years ago, Henry Mercer – local historian and archaeologist – constructed the museum, a beautiful, six-story castle in the heart of Doylestown’s historic district…

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…