By Robert Reed  Displays of patriotism abounded in the United States long before the most timely arrival of holiday postcards on the American scene early in the 20th century. Yet the robust stars and stripes and all those related images just never looked better than they did in print on illustrated postcards.  Within ten years of the ‘new’ century citizens […]

 Nestled in Pike National Forest outside Denver, Colorado and just past  the town of Bailey, Colorado, is a cozy, rustic vacation waiting to happen. Glen Isle Resort is a place of tradition and history.  Glen Isle was constructed in 1901 as a resort for the prominent and well-to-do, most of whom resided in Denver, some 50 miles to the east. […]

By Maureen Timm  Blue Ridge dinnerware acquired its name from the misty Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee. This charming, hand painted pottery decorated in a spectrum of vivid colors was one of the nation’s most attractive and original dinnerware lines for over forty years.  It all began in 1917 in the small southern town of Erwin, Tennessee, when the California […]

By Robert Reed  One of major league baseball’s grandest events, the All Star game, had been generating treasured memorabilia since the early 1930s.  Today fans of what has long been billed as “the Mid Summer Classic” still cheer for programs, photographs, ticket stubs, pennants and whatever else has endured the decades.  Comiskey Park in Chicago was the site of the […]