One of the most iconic images from World War II—Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima—is featured on today’s #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp showing that image issued on July 11, 1945, about five months after the picture was taken and about a month before Japan surrendered. The stamp recreates Joe Rosenthal’s iconic, Pulitzer Prize winning […]

How times change, is illustrated by today’s #stampoftheday, which honors a state that was the first state where were first allowed to vote but now is so conservative that it gave Donald Trump his largest margin of victory in 2016. The state is Wyoming and the stamp is a 3-cent stamp issued on July 10,

A five-cent stamp issued in 1940, takes us on a magical and mysterious tour that not only includes the Beatles but also has vigilante tailors, dreams that solve intractable design problems, multiyear lawsuits, multimillion-dollar fortunes, America’s first patent pool, an author who claims to speak for those beyond this world, and, of course, both sewing

Acadia National Park, a place I’ve loved over the years, takes center stage as today’s #stampoftheday because on July 8, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created Sieur de Monts National Monument, which later became the heart of the park. The park was featured on a 7-cent stamp issued in 1934 as part of a series of

As this #stampoftheday odyssey continues, I’ve learned that there are different types of days. Yesterday, I wrote about how it’s sometimes challenging to find anything to write about. Other times, the process of writing these posts reveals wonderful strange pieces of information. Who knew, for example, that the “Lion” in Lions Club International stands for

Since I started my #stampoftheday project in April, the goal has been to find a stamp or other object in my late father’s stamp collection that had some connection with that day. Sometimes, this is easy; in fact sometimes I have to choose between several different stamps issued on the same day (as on July

“Search for peace,” a good message at any time, seems particularly important in this troubled summer. So it’s nice that today’s #stampoftheday is a 5-cent “Search for Peace” stamp issued on July 5, 1967. Although the stamp was issued at the height of the Vietnam War (and increasing protests against that war), it wasn’t a

Seeing a fair number of American flags, several Trump/Pence signs (but no Susan Collins signs) and an occasional Black Live Matter placard as we meandered home from mid-coast Maine today, made me choose a 1957 4-cent American flag stamp as today’s #stampoftheday. (It won out over a 1956 stamp featuring Independence Hall and 1950 stamp

The largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States which also was the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, “sails into view” as today’s #stampoftheday. In fact, it might even sail into your living room tonight via a gala online special. Actually there’s not really a stamp. Rather, it’s an

The fourth (of five) presidents to have a beard as well as the first (and still the only) person to be elected to the presidency directly from the House of Representatives, takes the stage for today’s #stampoftheday. A 5-cent stamp issued in 1882, the stamp portrays James A. Garfield, who was shot on July 2,