Postcard History

January 19, 2025

Tag: Hawaiian postcards

  • Scorching Post Cardson Hawai’i

    Scorching Post Cards
    on Hawai’i

    Editor’s Staff

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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…

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Past Article

Eleanor “Ellie” McCrackin
May 12, 2021 4 Comments
Tea drinkers around the world speak in their own special code. They say things like, “Put the kettle on” or “Don’t bruise the tea.” History has no ability to decode these social conventions, but if you care to have a cup, the kettle is always on at Ellie’s house.

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