Garden of Reflection
Pennsylvania's official 9/11 memorial, a 2.5-acre garden inside Lower Makefield's 62-acre Memorial Park, designed by Yardley architect Liuba Lashchyk and dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the attacks. The walking memorial honors all 2,973 victims, 18 of them from Bucks County, and moves deliberately from grief toward light.
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25th Remembrance of 9/11 at the Garden of Reflection
Twenty-five years on at Pennsylvania's official 9/11 memorial. In past years the ceremony opened at 8:30 with the bell tolled nine times for the nine township residents lost.
25th Commemoration of September 11 Morning Ceremony
Pennsylvania's official 9/11 memorial marks twenty five years with a morning ceremony that runs about an hour, then quiet time to walk the grounds and the twin fountains.
Remembrance in Light Ceremony
The night ceremony returns for the 25th anniversary: candle lighting, music, and the fountains rising as it gets dark. It ends with people walking up to the glass name panels.
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Laurel Hill West
The Bala Cynwyd half of Laurel Hill, a historic cemetery and certified arboretum spanning 265 acres across its two locations, open to the public free, 365 days a year. Grounds hours run 7 am to 7 pm in summer, 7 to 5 in winter.
Lake Afton
A hand-dug millpond from the early 1700s that's now the scenic middle of Yardley: skate it in January, fish it in July. Take the gravel promenade along Afton Avenue and watch for turtles and the geese working you for bread.
National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
A Polish-American Catholic shrine founded in 1955 on Beacon Hill, the highest elevation in Bucks County. Sunday Mass runs in Polish at 12:30, and the grounds include a cafeteria, Polish deli, and religious-goods store.
