Yardley Historical Association Holding 3 Open Houses

YARDLEY BOROUGH, PA — Trains, trees, and treats.

The Yardley Historical Association will welcome visitors to its annual holiday open houses on each Saturday over the next three weeks at the Old Library by Lake Afton from 1 to 4 p.m.

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

The open houses are scheduled for this Saturday, and on Dec. 13 and Dec. 20.

Amid evergreens and 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 fir tree adorned as it would have been in Victorian times with chromolithography paper ornaments, cranberry, and popcorn chains, real candles, and toys.

Homemade cutout sugar cookies and warm cider will be offered to all.

“Yardley” gifts – “Old Library Books” velvet ornaments from England, flour sacks and embroidered tea towels, books, prints, and paper goods of all sorts — will be available for 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.