April 21, 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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February 6, 2020 1 Comment
Moonlight postcards have a magic appeal for everyone. In the Golden Age of the postcard they were a mark of any right-thinking town, to show off their modern way of life and their up-to-date streets.