For the American Baby-Boomer, the word, “imagine” was quite successfully hijacked by a young British lad named John Lennon. He wrote a song in 1971 that asked the listener to imagine a world of peace, without materialism, without borders separating nations, and without religion. It became
One special part of my collection is the one of hand drawn postcards. To me a hand-drawn card is original art – a one-and-only. Such cards are few and far between, but that is exactly what this one is.
It
The United States Secretary of the Navy chooses and announces the name of each new vessel in consultation with the President under the rules of Congress. Throughout the years those who have taken this awesome responsibility must have
Llandudno is a Welsh town with an ancient heritage. Along with many nearby villages such as Gogarth, Penrhyn Bay, Craigside, Glanwydden, Penrhynside, and Bryn Pydew there is a combined population of just over 20,000 citizens. Postcard History
Like all luscious dishes, the mambo is an amalgam – a mixture of dance and musical styles – tasty flavors representing sources in Afro-Caribbean religious rituals and romantic Latin-American melodies like the son Cubano. Its related song and dance styles including danzon, cha-cha-cha,
It would be a challenge for everyone to find more colorful, vibrant, or feel-good postcards than the sheer joie de vivre of Little Chef’s advertising cards. Even now, with the Little Chef chain of fast-food restaurants an increasingly distant memory, just glancing at
How many times have postcards been the subject
of a front-page story in The New York Times?
Only once to my knowledge and that occasion was the grandest wedding ever held in Washington, D.C. when Alice Lee Roosevelt, daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt, married
The phone rang early Sunday morning, the day after a Pennsylvania postcard show at which three new acquaintances were made. It was 8:22. Okay, thinking better about scolding whomever it may be for calling in the “middle-of-the-night.” We are not early
Dear Readers,
March 15, 2021. It is unlikely that you have a specific memory of that day. If you do remember thirteen months ago, you recall that most of the country was locked-down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and we were on the edges of
In 2022 Americans will celebrate the centennial of the United States Navy’s aircraft carrier. Norfolk, Virginia, figures heavily in the history of these mighty ships. On March 20, 1922, following a two-year conversion at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (actually across
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