Morrisville-The borough is named for Pennsylvania merchant and banker Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution. His home "Summerseat" still stands in town. The movie Signs included a scene at Burn's Pharmacy, which is located in Morrisville borough. Morrisville is the only town in America to have two signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. (Robert Morris and George Clymer).
Over 40 years ago i attended a tour of historic Morrisville in lower bucks. Then, my aunt Sara lived near there. There was a historic house, with a small front lawn covered with English ivy. Sprinkled throughout the ivy were snowdrops. I had never seen such a charming sight...i was hooked on snowdrops!!!!! some 10 years later, after moving here to upper bucks, i spent many Fall days planting bulbs. Moving from a house city house with a 15ft. by 15ft back yard and now having 3 acres.. was unbelievable to me. One of the first years of the planting frenzy, i bought 100 snowdrop bulbs and painstakingly planted every blessed one along the path that leads from the back yard to the woods, throughout the English ivy, only to have about a dozen come up in the spring. over the years the dozen turned into 12 nice clumps. I enjoyed seeing them multiply even if not how i originally envisioned them to grow. 2 years ago, they disappeared from their original bed only to reappear.... all over the place. one here, 3 there. a nice big clump in the middle of the lawn. no rhyme or reason . There is a huge patch of clumps just over the property line, where the seeds migrated to a sunny bank. It is interesting to see where they pop up. The first flowers of the season, which show their heads in mid February.
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