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A Festival of Postcards (6th Ed.) – White | Part 2, Contemporary postcards, postcrossing

This is part 2 of A Festival of Postcards (6th Ed.) White

A Festival of Postcards (6th Ed.) – White | Part I

 

Contemporary

Chris Overstreet blogs at Wild Postcards: A (Re) Collection which showcases recent postcards that he’s collected as well as vintage postcards coming from a collection which was started by his “great-grandfather, Philip Nelson Smith (1896-1972), who kept a number of postcards from his childhood, and from his travels (mostly to visit family in Pennsylvania, after he and Great-Grandma Lottie left there to move in with my grandparents in New Jersey in the early ’60s). This time he’s entered a modern postcard  Dreaming of a White Christmas.

 

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Regular contributor Sheila from the UK blogs at A Postcard a Day . Sheila sees her postcard collection as a way to continue her “father’s life at least in spirit”. Her postcard this month - White gold in the south of France - is a detailed industrial card of the saltworks at Camargue (Aigues Mortes, Petit Camargue, France) and is accompanied by information and links.

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Annie Goodall of Annie & PB Go Geocaching entered her post Visions of White beginning with the words “White. What do you first think of when you see or hear the word white? For me it’s Antarctica” which I guess is natural since Annie hails from New Zealand. In case you’re wondering what geocaching is, Annie explains that “A geocache is a container hidden at specific geographical co-ordinates. In the activity of Geocaching a person must find this container and sign the log book inside it as evidence of having been there”. Sounds like fun! Read more »

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A Festival of Postcards (2nd Edition) MAIN STREET – Call for Submissions

A Festival of Postcards (2nd Edition) –  Main Street

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Wheels  - the premiere issue of A Festival of Postcards was published last week and if you haven’t seen it yet and you love postcards, it’s definitely worth a visit! We had a wonderful selection of vintage and modern postcards from dozens of bloggers from different backgrounds and almost every continent.

Many who took part in the first festival are family historians and genealogists using vintage postcards to enrich their research while others are Postcrossers. Postcrossing is an activity in which bloggers exchange modern postcards (often around a certain theme such as UNESCO World Heritage Sites) and it seems a great way to bring people around the world closer together. Others Festival participants are beginners or experts in the field of deltiology (the collection and study of postcards). What everyone does share is a love of postcards!


Want to take part in the June issue which is dedicated to MAIN STREET, Anywhere?

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