April 19, 2024
Tag: Montgomery
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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.
Past Article
August 10, 2022 6 Comments
The highly colored portraits in the USPS series the Legends of the Wild West and the short biographic captions is a great way to introduce young collectors to postcards. They are now (or soon will be thirty years old) but remember to the very young, thirty years is more than a lifetime.