September 22, 2026
Tag: Yorkville
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Yorkville, a Night in the Old Country
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Yorkville, known today as the “Upper East Side” of New York City stretches from the East River to Third Avenue. From time-to-time every American neighborhood experiences growing-pains. History changes everything – even the way the “old-neighborhood” is remembered.
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January 31, 2022 4 Comments
If you like to time-travel (of course you do, why else would you read Postcard History) you may like to turn the clock back to the winter of 1913. They haven’t invented television, the nearest library is too far to walk in waist deep snow, so what do you do? Let me introduce you to Frank and Joseph Bily, brothers and fellow farmers who decide to make their own clocks.