Our first visit was at Bill and Betty's house in Pennsylvania. They are wonderful hosts and we always enjoy time spent with them. Fortunately Joan and Mother were able to join us for dinner on Thursday night. It was a wonderful laugh-filled evening.
Bill and Betty's home is a beautiful example of the stone farmhouses of the 1800s.
We took a field trip on Thursday to visit the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works Museum in Doylestown. Henry Chapman Mercer was a proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement. He built three poured- in- place concrete structures in the 1800s; the tile works, his home "Fonthill" and the Mercer Museum. Handmade tiles are still produced at the museum in the process developed by Mercer. I really like the tile works building...tiles everywhere, even the kiln chimneys wear tiles.
Craftsman creating new tiles.
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