October 14, 2024
Tag: DE
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Postcards of My Boyhood Home by Pat Dyer
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Hometown postcard collectors dream of finding postcards showing their childhood home. I was excited to find such a card while at a local auction house. I saw a real-photo card with a caption, “Rising Sun, Del.” in the bottom left corner. Rising Sun is home to a couple hundred people. It is an unincorporated village…
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June 20, 2023 5 Comments
A collection of postcards that brings a century-old conversation back to life is precious. This bit of World War One history – correspondence between Jack and Margaret that never mentions the war or the enemy – makes the weather and a cricket game hot topics.