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In Morrisville, Jonathan Snipes stands on the lookout bridge overlooking his family farm´s corn maze. (April Saul / Staff Photographer)
In Morrisville, Jonathan Snipes stands on the lookout bridge overlooking his family farm's corn maze. (April Saul / Staff Photographer)
Farm family staves off sprawl in Bucks
When 90-year-old Sam Snipes was a boy in the 1920s, Falls Township was a bucolic place with about 2,500 people. Nearly all the land was occupied by farms.
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