
Month: April 2022


Opening Lines
Ray Hahn
Opening Lines
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season

United States Landmarks – Quiz Two
United States Landmarks
Quiz Two
Welcome to the Postcard History
United States Landmarks Quiz
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This is the second in a series of five quizzes. Each quiz will include ten challenges. There will be fifty challenges (questions). If you answer the

Mount Lowe Railway – The “Railway in the Clouds”
Steven Taylor
Mount Lowe Railway
The “Railway in the Clouds”
Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe was an American Civil War aeronaut, scientist, and inventor, mostly self-educated in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and aeronautics, and the father of military aerial reconnaissance in the United States as well as the father of

Charles Crombie, Cartoonist – The Rules of Golf Postcards
Ray Hahn
Charles Crombie, Cartoonist
The Rules of Golf Postcards
To name but a few, in the golden era of postcards with golf or golfing themes there were four cartoonists who did series of cards for Raphael Tuck & Sons or Valentine. Fred Buchanan, Lance Thackeray, and Bert Thomas worked