Mercer Museum Folk Fest

There is " hidden treasure" in Bucks County, Pa. - and very few residents know or visit. I know there are dozens of historical places and buildings, but my very favorite is the Mercer Museum in Doylestown.

Henry Mercer was quite a wealthy man and collected tools as a hobby. Wondering what to do with over 40,000 tools from more than 60 early American crafts and trades, he decided to build a museum and share them with the public.

Did he build an ordinary structure-No Way. Henry built one of the first all concrete buildings- six stories high-fireproof-made entirely of reinforced concrete. It was build in 1916 and today is on the Historical Register-with over 80.000 visitors a year.

Peggy and I are members and every year, we , along with our friends Cork and Anne, volunteer at their Annual Folk fest.. We set up a tent demonstrating decoy carving and the history of water fowling. It is a lot of fun and helps the museum -showing an aspect of colonial life that is not frequently demonstrated.