August 24, 2026
Tag: Postcards of My Boyhood Home
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Postcards of My Boyhood Home by Pat Dyer
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Hometown postcard collectors dream of finding postcards showing their childhood home. I was excited to find such a card while at a local auction house. I saw a real-photo card with a caption, “Rising Sun, Del.” in the bottom left corner. Rising Sun is home to a couple hundred people. It is an unincorporated village…
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October 2, 2025 2 Comments
Biographies of criminals have ranked high on the list of America’s reading interests, but where they slept is a new twist on hotel (and prison) history. Al Capone slept in hotels and prisons. Postcards record several such sites.