Pasture with the 1750s Log Farm house in the background September 22, 2018 was Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day, when free ticket...

The Peaceable Kingdom (Edward Hicks, c. 1834) exemplifies Quaker ideals. William Penn, Pennsylvania’s founder, was an English Quaker w...

Growing up in southeastern Pennsylvania, I learned at a young age that many of the neighboring town names were also found within the pages ...

The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a historical museum and working farm located in Ridley Creek State Park in Media (Delaware Co...

Horsham Friends Meeting Burying Ground – Horsham, Pennsylvania Teach me the measure of my days, Thou Maker of my frame; I would s...

Horsham Friends Meeting – Horsham, Pennsylvania If you’ve lived in the United States for any length of time, chances are you believe ...

Arriving at the City Tavern, in Philadelphia, on a recent trip there, I couldn't help but think of my characters Suzanne and Johan i...

When my Hochstetler ancestors arrived in Philadelphia aboard the ship Charming Nancy on November 9, 1738, they were part of a great migrat...

Graeme Park, located about twenty miles north of Philadelphia, in Horsham, Pennsylvania, was originally named Fountain Low due to the m...

The colonial historical fiction novel I’m currently writing is set in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1777. Because I want my book ...