Introduction of Charlie Thomsforde:
What would life have been like around 1700?
Charlie Thomforde was imbued with the presence of the
past through growing up in Italy, in Rome. His academic credentials are in
Biology from Swarthmore College and in horticulture from University of Delaware.
He has been involved with early Bucks County history for the last forty years
through his association with Pennsbury Manor, a re-creation of William Penn's
17th century country estate, where Charlie worked as Historic Horticulturist.
Currently, he helps out at the Trent House, an historic house in Trenton, N.J.
which interprets Lenape and African-American horticulture as well as Colonial
English, and Morven Museum in Princeton, N.J. which interprets 18th century
through 20th century American horticulture. He is a member of Falls Friends
Meeting, the Quaker meeting under which our George and Sarah were married.