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May Postcard Show Moved to September: Hold-to-the-Light Postcards

May Postcard Show Moved to September: Hold-to-the-Light Postcards

By Carol Mobley    Have you heard of hold-to-the-light postcards and wondered just what is that? You wouldn’t be the first person to ask. A hold-to-the-light postcard is a postcard with 3 layers a front with a pattern cut out of it, a lighter color layer, and the back so when you hold it up you can see the light through […]

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April Fool’s Day

April Fool’s Day

   April Fool’s Day started in France, where before France adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1564, New Year’s was celebrated from March 21st to April 1st. And when they changed New Year’s Day to January 1st, many French people continued to celebrate New Year’s on April 1st.    The French people who wouldn’t change became known as April fools. The idea of […]

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Shakespeare in Lockdown: Did he write King Lear in Plague Quarantine?

Shakespeare in Lockdown: Did he write King Lear in Plague Quarantine?

Pestilence was rife in the Bard’s time, closing theatres and ravaging life. Did Shakespeare write his bleak, desperate drama while self-isolating? We sift the evidence. . . By Andrew Dickson, The Guardian    While those of us stuck in self-isolation or working from home watch TikTok videos and refresh liveblogs, a meme has been going around that claims Shakespeare made use […]

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#Connectedness Florence

By Joen M. Elliott    After two years of soul searching and trying to find myself, I made a move to Florence. As a child, I spent many summers near this area when our family stayed at my Uncle Boyd’s cabin in Rye. Years later, after several road trips to southern and southwestern Colorado, I fell in love with Florence and […]

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Taper Jacks, Bougie-Boxes, & Wax Jack

Taper Jacks, Bougie-Boxes, & Wax Jack

By Jack HT Chang, MD    Prior to the advent of sealed envelopes, confidentiality of missives was provided by folding the letter sheet multiple times than applying melted wax to an edge. A personal seal was then impressed upon the wax. Any tampering would break the wax seal which could not be repaired. The sealing wax was generally in the form […]

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