April 25, 2024
Category: Articles
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Quilts for a Cause
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“Gun Boat Quilt” was a term given to the raffle quilts made by southern women in order to finance the building of gun boats needed during the Civil War to protect the ports of the southern states and the shipping lanes in and out of southern harbors. This is part of the story.
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The Architecture of Mary Jane Colter
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Mary Jane Colter was not part of the conceptualization that Fred Harvey put on early 20th century travel to the American southwest, however her work was easily recognized and as early as the 1920s critics were writing, “Colter’s work is a vigorous modern statement, far ahead of the times.”
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The Elephant Hotel
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A man’s dream becomes reality. But, his money runs out. It may be strange to dream about elephants, but sleeping in an elephant hotel would be even stranger.
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A Card Without a Caption
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Eleanor “Ellie” McCrackin A Card Without a Caption A picture without a story? No Sir! A Postcard Without a Caption A friend who knows I collect postcards showing people at work gave me this card and asked, “What’s happening, here!” I thanked my friend and sent out on a search to find what…
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Bruce Bairnsfather: the Father of Wartime Comics
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Long before Private Breger (drawn by Dave Breger) shared with us the humor in the often illogical routine of daily army life and Willie and Joe (drawn by Bill Mauldin) became the voice of truth about what it was like on the front lines of war, our British cousins had Old Bill, drawn by Captain…
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The Crying Cayuse Twins Postcards
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Bob Toal tells the story of these iconic postcards, which were widely circulated and sometimes misidentified by several publishers at the height of their popularity. Learn why these twins were special on the Umatilla reservation and will always exemplify the comedy and tragedy of life.
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St. Mariacka in Gdansk
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] St. Mariacka in Gdansk When I saw St. Mariacka (St. Mary’s) it was very different from the picture on this postcard. On a warm day in late September, the dim interior of this church was a welcome relief from the searing sun and blinding light of mid-day. The languages around me that day…
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Hell’s Kitchen
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There are only a handful of locations on earth where “hell” is part of a place name. Nine, according to the National Geographic Atlas of the World. This is a story of another.
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The Worst Hurricane You Never Heard Of
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The South Florida Hurricane happened in September 1928. Calvin Coolidge was the occupant of the Oval Office. The weather bureau had been working at forecasting dangerous storms for more than fifty years, but their most useful tools were that of educated observation and data comparison to the statistics of past events. “Accurate” was hardly part…
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How About Those Quiz Kids?
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The Quiz Kids were part of American culture for many years. In a time when children were to be seen and not heard, the entire country listened to them, secretly proud to now and then know a quiz answer themselves. Today’s gifted children owe their acceptance to these Kids. Learn about their later accomplishments.
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The Whole Story of the Needle’s Hole
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This story is a complete accounting of how needles are manufactured. Be careful, it has some very sharp points of view.
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Copernicus, Science and the Church
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] Copernicus, Science and the Church I slept in a London hotel on a Saturday in May 2010. Sunday morning I went downstairs for breakfast a few hours before my flight to Philadelphia and while waiting for a full-English fry-up, I chose a newspaper from the rack by the door and found the following…
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The Wildflower Excursions
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From April into the fall, in the early years of the 20th century tourists made their way from near and far to the Colorado Midland Railroad depot in Colorado Springs for the Wildflower Excursions. The whole story is yet to be written, but here are the basics.
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The Tlingits: their life and legends
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Not only the Native American people, but their art and culture have too long been ignored by modern society. Our lives are busy, but we must stop to reflect on our past. Thankfully history challenges us to pay attention to men like the Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, who first went to Alaska as a Presbyterian…
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G. W. Bonte’s Tuck Postcards
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[elementor-template id=”3378″] G.W. Bonte’s Tuck Postcards Stan Davidson died at his Massachusetts home in 2012 and left his postcard friends to wonder how we would ever replace him. So far, it hasn’t happened. If you knew Stan, you were aware that Stan was the most deliberate checklist writer of anyone in our hobby. He was…
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We will never know what Lee would think about the hotels and motels named in his honor. During the Civil War, he stayed in a tent with his troops, declining more comfortable lodgings. Even when he fell ill in March 1863, he reluctantly left his tent on doctor’s orders to recuperate in a house, but he remained close to where his troops were bivouacked.