Stephanie Karpa, REALTOR

10/15/2026

Stephanie Karpa, Keller Williams Real Estate, 215-340-5700 (O), 610-842-5340 (C)

10/12/2026

10/07/2026

Wednesday Walkabout - Labeling Your Electric Panel
Stephanie Karpa, Keller Williams Real Estate, 215-340-5700 (O), 610-842-5340 (C)

10/06/2026

End of an era!

After over a hundred years of being part of this community, we have made the difficult decision to close our doors at the end of the year. We will continue on our usual schedule and be here every Tuesday, Saturday, Black Friday and our last day will be Tuesday December 29, 2026.

Over the years, Rice’s became so much more than just a place to buy and sell. This has been an incubator for side hustles and small businesses, a staple in shopping adventures and for better or worse long traffic lines that were part of the experience for so many years. Some vendors stayed for a season, some for decades, and many grew from a small table or booth here into thriving businesses of their own.

The market and economy changed over the last few years but the golden years of before sunrise Tuesdays, Saturdays and the great chaos that was a Black Friday will never be forgotten. Porkroll, egg and cheese sandwiches on a perfect Kaiser roll, the echo of “Pretzels… Fresh squeezed lemonade!” throughout the market and so many high school kids' first job selling sodas out of coolers will be a core memory of the 90s and early 2000s.

Thank you all.. every vendor who used Rices as a place to build your business, to every employee who spent a chapter of their life here, and to this community, especially those who returned year after year and generation after generation to see what unique treasure they could come across- thank you for showing up, rain or shine, heat wave or bitter cold, for all these years.

As our doors close, we hope you will remember to keep choosing small; Find the local business and buy from them, stop at the farm stand, visit the independent shop, hire the person who turned their hobby into a business.

Thank you for the memories, the friendships, the businesses built, and the decades of support.

Sincerely,

Rice's Market

10/05/2026

Cheers to a great week!
Keller Williams Real Estate
215-340-5700 (O)
610-842-5340 (C)

10/02/2026

10/01/2026

The Michener Museum is part of a storied past as a prison for the county. Some say the museum is haunted!

Echoes of the Past: Doylestown’s Dark Folklore

The historic Old Bucks County Jail, which operated from 1884 until 1985 on Pine Street, now the James A. Michener Art Museum, has long been associated with dark folklore. Long before its halls were curated for the American art world, the Michener served as a center for incarceration—the fifth such facility in the long history of Bucks County’s penal system. Often referred to as the "Pine Street Hotel,” the structure housed a diverse population of inmates with offenses spanning from petty larceny to capital murder. During the Revolutionary era, the incarceration of infamous local figures included members of the notorious Doan Gang. Within the fortress-like stone walls, justice was sternly administered: the site witnessed two public hangings in 1894 and 1914 before state-mandated executions shifted to the electric chair.

Staff and maintenance workers over the decades have reported faint scratching sounds behind the masonry and disembodied whispers in areas where no one was present. Night watchmen and evening event staff have reported the distinct sound of heavy, measured boot steps echoing across empty flagstones, pacing back and forth along the historic perimeter as if an old guard is still making rounds. Local lore maintains that a lingering, heavy chill still clings to the courtyard where James Linzi, the last man to hang at the Pine Street gallows, met his fate. Staff closing the museum after hours have occasionally reported shadowy silhouettes crossing through open doorways between exhibits, only to find the galleries completely locked and vacant.

To hear more local folklore, take a moonlight walk through the center of Doylestown Borough with the Town Criers of the Doylestown Historical Society, who will share legends of restless spirits from the past -- September 23 and 24, 7:30 PM. For information and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/history-with-mystery-haunted-history-of-doylestown-tickets-1999772656849?aff=oddtdtcreator

Sources:
https://michenerartmuseum.org/gallows-to-galleries/
https://michenerartmuseum.org/site-michener-art-museum-haunted/

Photo caption:
This weathered stone archway functioned as the sally port for arriving prisoners, while the massive red gates—which remain fixed in place—were secured to seal off the world outside.

Source of photo: Ludwig, McNamara, Stecker, Images of America: Doylestown, Doylestown Historical Society, 2000.

10/01/2026