Postcard History

March 27, 2025

Bill Burton

It’s Old Home Week!-1

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May 16, 2019

Westward migration and the lure of factories helped depopulate New England and Middle Atlantic small towns. To lure the emigrants back. Frank Rollins created “Old Home Week.”

Bill Burton began collecting Ossining, New York postcards when he lived in that Hudson Valley town. His collection expanded, of course, to include his college, the neighboring towns, and places where he and his wife traveled. In retirement, he’s refocused on Delaware and the DelMarVa peninsula towns, but he’s just as likely to be found parked in front of the 25¢ boxes at shows.