Today’s #stampoftheday is an object lesson in what you can see when you look just a little closer. In this case, it’s a story that not only features mediocre (at best) political and military leadership but also a famous sculptor whose work includes the largest of the many controversial monuments to the Confederacy. The stamp […]
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,
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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With the calendar turning to July, it seems appropriate that today’s #stampoftheday honors school teachers (and other educators), who hopefully are getting a well-deserved break after an especially tumultuous spring and what is likely to be a very challenging fall. Of course, none of what it means to be a teacher today was envisioned when
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Another rainy day in Maine so I’m again sitting on the screened in porch thinking about how to write about today’s #stampoftheday, which, because it honors the Boy Scouts of America, is producing a range of reactions including nostalgia, anger, revulsion, and puzzlement. A mid-century classic that was the first of several honoring the Boy
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Today’s #stampoftheday manages to simultaneously diminish both a notable woman and the state of New Jersey. Issued in 1928, the stamp was issued to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Monmouth, particularly the role played by Molly Pitcher at that battle. But as you can see, it does so by printing the name
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