One day in late spring of 1928, fourteen-year-old high school sophomore Boyd Manson Jones decided he was going to ride his horse from his home outside Gallup, New Mexico, all the way to Washington,...
Genealogy / History / Postcard Story
by David · Published May 12, 2019 · Last modified March 13, 2022
It has been quite some time since I published one of my Postcard Stories. The reason is that I came across a postcard whose author is connected to a convoluted web of interesting characters....
I have always liked Graham Nash’s song, Cathedral, and it is hard not to hum it when strolling through the Santa Fe national cemetery while taking gravestone photos for people. I’m always scanning others...
With Sears now in decline and fading fast it is interesting to look back at how this mighty giant was once a major threat to established brick and mortar stores at its founding. Richard...
I recently started taking cemetery photos for the website FindAGrave.com. The site has been useful to me in my genealogy research and this is my way of giving back. The way it works is...
23 July 1945. That is the date my Uncle Otto Anthony Mittelstadt and his plane, a model F4U-4 Corsair only months old, disappeared off the coast of Okinawa just as WWII was coming to...
My criteria for purchasing old postcards could be described loosely as follows. They should picture an interesting place or location. They should be personalized, that is, they should have a message written on them...
The rise of the automobile in the very early part of the 20th century created a unique cultural movement that lasted for some 25 odd years. In 1910 there were approximately 460,000 automobiles in...
My interest in this postcard was initially the painterly depiction of the Laguna Pueblo on the front. One of my great-uncles was the parish priest of the mission church there, 1930-1931, and on my...
I recently pulled out my ancient stamp collection, dusted it off, and thought, “Man, what’s the story behind this one?” on several of them. To that end, I’ve added a “Stamp Stories” section of...
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