January 2, 2025
Tag: Virginia
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My Bargain Friday AND Bonanza Saturday
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A collector arrives a day early for the Old Dominion Postcard Show. So she browses the local used bookstore and comes across a coverless and battered copy of Alfred Tennyson’s Locksley Hall, for which she pays $2 plus tax. She reads it through and, next day at the show, finds the perfect postcard to illustrate…
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Fort Pickett
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An uncertain spokesman once said to George Pickett that the “Old Man” (Robert E. Lee) gave him immortality. That rather dubious “gift” came by way of having his name associated with a battlefield calamity at Gettysburg that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge.
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December 26, 2023 3 Comments
Moonlight is for … well, everything! From the mountains in New England to the beaches in Hawai’i, and the rest of the world, moonlight makes everything better. Even – as we see in this gallery of moonlight postcards – lighthouses, statues, ships, and city scenes. Let’s all howl!