
Author: Ray Hahn


Minnie Freeman’s Most Notable Day of Teaching
Ray Hahn
Minnie Freeman’s Most
Notable Day of Teaching
In a genealogy workshop, one of my students was telling a family tale that she heard around 1955 from her grandmother. It was about her Great Uncle’s birth in 1888. Supposedly the birth took place during a weather event frequently referred


Edward Tuckerman Potter America’s Episcopal Architect
Ray Hahn
Edward Tuckerman Potter
America’s Episcopal Architect
Buckminster Fuller once commented, “When I’m working a project, I never think about beauty, but when I’m finished, if my solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong.”
It could be Edward Tuckerman Potter was never wrong!
When Edward Potter decided to

The Sphinx – the world’s most accomplished witness to history
Ray Hahn
The Sphinx
the world’s most accomplished witness to history
In the parlance of recorded history, the phrase “Witness Tree” is frequently found in after-battle accounts and descriptions of historic or often extraordinary events that occurred at a given site. A favorite use of the phrase comes from times

The Tragic End of August J. Bulte
Ray Hahn
The Tragic End
of August J. Bulte
The average collector of advertising postcards will, when asked, give you a dozen good reasons for collecting, but the most common is that advertising cards symbolize elements that enhance the curiosity we have in social history. The postcards we examine here

Portugal – Europe’s Best Kept Secret
Ray Hahn
Portugal
Europe’s Best Kept Secret
Of the forty-four countries in Europe, Portugal ranks fourteenth with a population of just over ten million. Officially the Portuguese Republic includes the offshore archipelago of the Azores and the island of Madeira. (See PostcardHistory.net, Madeira – Isles of the Blessed: January 17,


Professor Cizek’s Juvenile Art Class
Ray Hahn
Professor Cizek’s
Juvenile Art Class
In all the world there has rarely been a more passionate advocate for children than the Austrian artist and teacher Franz Cizek. There is a familiar quote which comes from a speech he made before the Vienna schoolboard around 1895. He said,
“What

Pea Patch Island – History, Legend, and Postcards
Ray Hahn
Pea Patch Island
History, Legend, and Postcards
The headwaters of the Delaware River form where its tributaries meet in the village of Hancock, New York. Two hundred and eighty-three miles south, the Delaware flows into the Delaware Bay and then into the Atlantic Ocean. The Delaware is the