The park main attraction is the Neshaminy Creek. Local families stroll along its idyllic shores and explore numerous ways to practice patience, such as throwing pebbles into the water, pretending fishing, or walking their dogs.

But to every rule there is an exception - and there are daring people ready to demonstrate it. Just the other day I came across such amazing bunch of good sports - a group of parents and their kids that occupied shores of a small branch of the Creek with a bridge over it. Apparently parents were nostalgic about good old times when creeks were clean and the living was easy. So, they encouraged the kids to jump off the bridge into the shallow water and captured these priceless family moments with their iPhones and tablets.

The parents, kids, and innocent bystanders - they all seemed to be having a lot of fun.

Well, no fun can last forever. A cop came and spoiled the party.

Tired but satisfied, the party left the scene of their glory.

There is something miraculous about Newtown, a borough in Eastern PA with population slightly over 2,000. It's home to the nation's oldest movie theater; one of the oldest libraries in the state works there without interruptions since 1760; George Washington marched his army from Newtown headquarter to defeat the British at Battle of Trenton; the famed primitive painter, Edward Hicks lived and preached there; more recently, aliens visited it, and a popular movie was made about it; the borough even was a scene of an international crime - a billion dollars Russian mafia money laundering was operated from headquarters in Newtown. The list is going on and on.

So it's no wonder that the borough also became a home to the Newtown Athletic Club (NAC) - the third largest single-site workout facility in the USA with world class outdoor resort style aquatic complex. In the best tradition of the Newtown uniqueness the NAC is very different from a regular fitness facility - with its state of the art indoor and outdoor amenities located on 22 acres, bar and restaurant it can best be described as a lifestyle club - a 'golf club without golf'. Among other things the NAC is famed for its hospitable crowded evening parties thrown at its exquisite pool complex. Take a glimpse at the latest party for NAC Advocates that celebrated the opening of the resort pool complex for the 2015 season.

mark berman

tyler park...nostalgic party

newtown athletic club summer soiree