Ghost Hunt at Historic Summerseat – SOLD OUT!
SOLD OUT Ghost Hunt at Summerseat Mansion – Saturday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate Constitution Day, September 17, 2019
Two of the owners of Summerseat, Robert Morris and George Clymer signed the Constitution Read (and explore) the full text of the Constitution here: https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/full-text
Blast from Morrisville High School’s Past
1967 Fashion Forecast by Cari Busch Raise the flag: The mini-skirt is being lowered. After reaching an all-time high, hemlines are finally coming down. The Paris designers (fashion pacesetters of the world) are setting hemlines just above the knee for their spring showings. However, this doesn’t mean that short-short skirts are out of the picture…
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Patriot’s Day at Summerseat – POSTPONED until May 2020
Patriot’s Day at Summerseat in September 2019 has been POSTPONED until May 2020 Please keep sending in your stories of family remembrances of service during WWI and WWII and their personal stories, along with favorite war recipes. We have recently received great information from Carol Evans about Dr. George A. Enion. Mary Moyer brought pictures…
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D-Day
D-Day is the World War II military operation which took place on June 6, 1944. It was code-named Operation Neptune, presumably because it involved a water landing by the Allies on the beaches of Normandy, France. It is the largest military operation by sea in history, and of course it had great significance to the…
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EXCERPT FROM “THE CROSSING” by HOWARD FAST
What follows is an entry in a Hessian dairy, made by one of the Jagers on the day they arrived in Trenton. “We marched to Trenton and joined our two regiments of Rall and Knyphausen, in order to take up a sort of winter quarters here, which are wretched enough. This town consists of about…
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Patriots’ Day in September
Summerseat will celebrate the men and women of WWI and WWII from Morrisville Do you have a relative who served in the military during WWI or WWII? Do you have a relative who worked in the war industries, helped build munitions, gathered scrap metal, were Blackout Wardens, or sent letters to soldiers and sailors they…
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“The Crossing”
THE CROSSING Excerpts from the book The Crossing, by Howard Fast Chapter 14 It pressed upon him hotly. Sunday afternoon on the eighth of December, he lay down for a little while in the bedroom at the Barclay house, and his servants tried to protect him. He was still in the cloths he had…
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Summerseat Newsletter and Annual Dinner
Historic Summerseat Newsletter March 2019 Upcoming event – Annual Dinner – Friday, March 29 Dinner begins at 6:00 PM – Tickets are $20 p/p For reservation call Sharon: Home: 215-295-2900; Cell: 267-847-3089 A delicious catered dinner of Chicken Francaise, Italian Green Beans, Vegetable Lasagna, Roasted Potatoes, Salad, Rolls, desert, and coffee. Dinner will be followed…
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