Three generations of Micheners resided in this beautiful farmhouse in Solebury Township. Jim's father and grandfather were born there.

This home is now an office and beautifully maintained. A corner of the old barn is visible on the right.

I live behind this building and for years had been photographing it as well as trying to discover its history. My efforts turned up very little until I met Jim Michener, who identified it as one of his grandfather's farmhouses. In my wildest imagination I could never have dreamed that the answer would come from halfway across the world: Laos!

Burgess Lea Farm on River Road. When Jim was growing up, this was called the Johnson Farm. Jim had spotted a duplicate photo of this farm posted on a web site called Trek Earth and had sent me a very nice email stating that, when he was in his teens, he and Evelyn Johnson (his grandmother's contemporary) and her daughter, Dorothy, used to sort peaches inside this pre-Revolutionary War barn, behind which runs a canal and the Delaware River, which takes its name from the Delaware Indians, also called the Lenape.

I had noticed that he lived in Laos, so when I wrote back I invited him to visit an online gallery of photos I had of Bucks County in the event he should ever get homesick.

I never expected to get the response that I did. He was in a mild state of shock at having seen a series of photos I had taken at the Solebury Meetinghouse Burying Grounds, because they centered around so many memories he had of his grandfather, Hugh. He then asked me where in Solebury I lived, so I told him, and then he asked if the old farmhouse near the bend in the road near my townhouse was still there, explaining that it had been his grandparents' farmhouse. Now it was my turn to be in shock because this was the house in the previous photo -- the one I had been looking for information on! For years!