July 16, 2025
Tag: Polio epidemic 1950
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The Lost Summer with Sandra Cobb
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In the early spring of 1950 signs like this one started to appear in the front windows or on the front doors of homes across America. This one from Connecticut and ones like it appeared as warnings that a quarantine was in affect designed to prevent the spread of polio. Postcard History’s guest contributor, Sandy…
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June 28, 2020 1 Comment
Composed by Walter Kent, 1941Lyrics by Nat BurtonFirst recording by vocalist Vera Lynn IN MEMORIUMVera Lynn1917-2020The Voice of England’s Unofficial HymnThe White Cliff of Dover There’ll be bluebirds overThe white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see.There’ll be love and laughterAnd peace ever after.Tomorrow, when the world is free.The shepherd will tend his […]