3 Community Open Houses Planned By Yardley Historical Association

YARDLEY, PA —Trains, trolleys, a Lake Afton-themed tree, and treats.

Come see the Old Library by Lake Afton decked out in its holiday best on Dec. 2, 9 and 16. The Yardley Historical Association will welcome visitors to the Community Open Houses from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on each Saturday.

The festivities will be held at the Association’s headquarters located in the heart of Yardley at 46 West Afton Avenue.

Amid the fir and the holly, the highlight will be an expansive model train layout with tooting engines, clattering cabooses, and trolleys. With familiar buildings, landmarks, and billboards, the railroad scene will evoke Yardley’s past and present.

Standing tall above the trains will be a real fir tree decorated with handmade ornaments evocative of winter at Lake Afton. Skaters and their skates, mittens, geese, ducks, turtles, fish, snowflakes, and icicles will twirl on the tree boughs.

Cutout sugar cookies and hot cider will be offered to all, and “Yardley” gifts — the new Old Library flour sack dish towels and book diaries, the third Old Library ornament, notecards of all sorts, embroidered tea towels, books, and prints —will be available to purchase for holiday gift giving or keeping.

In the spirit of the season, the Open Houses are free. Donations are always welcome.

Proceeds will benefit the Historical Association’s efforts to maintain the Victorian library building and its collections of books, documents, and ephemera related to Yardley’s history.

For more information about the Association’s activities, please visit www.yardleyhistory.org, e-mail info@yardleyhistory.org, or call 215-208-1154.

(Photos courtesy of the Yardley Historical Association) Tea towels and a skating ornament are some of the holiday gifts at the Yardley Historical Association's three community open houses. The first takes place Saturday.