December 15, 2025
Tag: Hawaiian postcards
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Scorching Post Cards
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If you were a tourist on the Island of Hawai’i in the first two decades of the 20th century and you were among those permitted a walk on Kilauea’s caldera, you could do what the tourists on the postcard above are doing. You could scorch the postcards you planned to send home in the molten lava…
Past Article
August 2, 2020 No Comments
Our first quiz tests your research skills by asking questions about five postcards commemorating the Battle of the Alamo. After a 13-day siege, that began on February 23, 1836, the Mexican Federal forces under the leadership of General Santa Anna won the battle on March 6, reclaiming the Alamo Mission, located in present day San […]