Carl LaVO | Special to the Bucks County Courier Times
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Bucks County hosts its 39th annual senior games
Bucks County hosted its 2022 Senior Games from June 1 to 17 to help ages 50+ stay active and healthy.
Ella Castronuovo, Bucks County Courier Times
Where can you take flight in a glider or an antique biplane in Southeastern Pennsylvania? Tinicum Township, How about lifting off into the blue in a Boeing 737? Also Tinicum Township.
True — but in two different Tinicum townships.
The former is home to Van Sant Airport and glider field in Bucks County; the latter home to Philadelphia International Airport in Delaware County. Confusing — at least to me from Florida, where there is no such duplication in 411 incorporated towns.
It got me to wondering how Tinicum-times-two came about in Pennsylvania. The answer can be found in the Native American term for “island” – tennakonk.
Colonists of the future Delaware County disembarked in 1643 on a large island in the river where they founded the first recorded European settlement in Pennsylvania. The Swedish settlers spelled their new community “Tinicum,” approximating what the natives seemed to be saying was the name of the island.
Many years later and 63 miles upriver, English colonists came ashore on another island. Again,…