January 27, 2021

Tag: New York

News Travels Fast…Sharing the Morning News via Postcards

Diane Lapis

News Travels Fast…

Sharing the Morning News via Postcards

“This is where Thaw has got to make his home,” so reads the inscription by “J” on this postcard from Matteawan, New York, dated August 16, 1909.

Imagine the writer, sipping coffee and reading the morning headline: “Back to

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Who Killed Stanny White?

Hy Mariampolski

Who Killed Stanny White?

Here is the formula for disaster: take the most celebrated architect of the period – one whose creative flair is matched by his sexual appetites. Add Evelyn Nesbit, a most beautiful though underage showgirl of the era. Mix it up with an insanely jealous

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Sarah Bishop

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Punny Postcards

Bonnie Wilpon

Punny Postcards

A SALUTE TO PUNSTERS ACROSS THE POND

Since they invented the language we speak,
it is only right and proper to give credit where credit is due.

The English are master word-crafters
wherever puns are rated on a giggle-o-meter.

Let’s say, thanks to Donald McGill, Lance

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It’s Old Home Week!

Bill Burton

It’s Old Home Week!

The twin pulls of urban industrialization and westward migration that overtook America after the Civil War was devastating to many small towns in New England and the  Middle Atlantic States. In the four decades ending in 1900, despite massive European immigration, the population of

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