A Festival of Postcards (2nd Ed.) Main Street

A Festival of Postcards –  Main Street

Welcome to the second edition of A Festival of Postcards – a blog carnival where we  share our love of vintage and modern postcards. Whether you’re a casual or serious collector, whether postcards are your primary focus or just an addition to your study of genealogy, art or social history, it makes no difference. If you love postcards, you’ve come to the right place!

This issue is called MAIN STREET –  but our postcards come from all over the world so you shouldn’t be surprised  if you find yourself  looking at a rue principale or a High Street instead. So without further ado, here are the Main Street postcards presented in the order in which I received them!

Feature Article

Our feature article this month is by Alex Coles who blogs out of Auckland, New Zealand. Alex’s family history/genealogy  blog  is called Winging It – a clever play on words because her main project is a one-place study of Wing (Buckinghamshire). Winging It is a must visit for anyone who wants to see examples of fine writing. In her piece for this Festival – A walk home along High Street, Wing, Buckinghamshire – Alex uses her storytelling skills to draw us right into the postcard. What a treat!

New: Alex has also published: A Walk Home – Postscript

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Genealogy blogger TCasteel of Tangled Trees starts us off in sunny California on America’s west coast with a postcard of the now-deserted 19th century silver mining settlement Calico Ghost Town.

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Elizabeth P. Crowe takes us to the America’s eastern coast with a postcard of her  hometown in Navarre Beach, Florida posted at Crowe’s Nest Genealogy.

Elizabeth’s was the first of two “watery” postcards!

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Judith Richards Shubert presents The Grande Canale – What a Main Street! posted at Genealogy Traces, saying, “This postcard picturing the Grande Canal in Venice was purchased by my mother-in-law in the 1960s when visiting there. To me it is the PERFECT main street! A watery one.”. What a wonderful Main Street!

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UK blogger Sheila of A Postcard a Day shares a postcard of centuries old Tenterden High Street, a town that used to host sheep and cattle fairs. Sheila is following in the postcard collecting tradition of her father and as her blog title indicates, she posts one postcard a day!

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And for a change of pace don’t miss Lara’s Cards and More Blog where Lara has published a postcard of Mickey and Minnie on Main Street in Florida’s Walt Disney World.

Lara is a native Russian who now blogs from Minnesota.

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Lynne of Postcardy (home of Postcardy Scavenger Hunt) shares 2 postcards again this month.One is the traditional  Original Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota posted at Postcardy while the other is the somewhat more quirky  St. Anthony Main, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Donna presents Bavarian Main Street posted at What’s Past is Prologue, saying, “This festival has been so much fun!”

Donna weaves a wonderfully warm story of family history and friendship across the sea.

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Denise Olson presents Neptune Grill posted at Moultrie Creek, saying, “Postcards provide memories of earlier days and favorite places that are now gone. The Neptune Grill is a fond childhood memory – now preserved as part of my postcard collection.”

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Linda Stienstra presents One Hundred Years ago on West James Street posted at From Axer to Ziegler, saying, “Just a fraction of what Lancaster, Pennsylvania is all about; a very small fraction at that!”

For those who don’t already know, Linda also blogs about cemeteries!

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Vickie Everhart presents PFF/Festival of Postcards :: Main Street in Rockdale posted at .: BeNotForgot :: begotten & ne’er forgotten :., saying, “This collage features an old Rockdale postcard with the caption — Main St. north from I & G. N. Depot, Rockdale, Texas. My 2nd great-grandparents were on this Main St. in October of 1876 — when Rockdale was just 2 years old — and I was there on the 14th of this month — now that Rockdale is 135 years of age!”

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Randy Seaver (host of Saturday Night Fun with Randy) presents Postcard: A Tijuana Barbecue at his  Genea-Musings blog. Randy recounts his grandfather’s interest in postcards – I wonder what Randy’s grandfather would say if he could see his grandson blogging online about postcards!

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M. Diane Rogers presents Festival of Postcards -2nd Edition – Main Street – Western Canada posted at CanadaGenealogy, or, ‘Jane’s Your Aunt’.

Rogers uses this lovely black and white, multi-view card and accompanying article to educate us about pioneer immigration to western Canada in the twentiety century.

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John Gasson presents A Festival of Postcards – Main Street (Sussex style) posted at The Wandering Genealogist, saying, “We don’t have Main Streets over here in England, just High Streets, this is a rural village High Street from 1905.”

John’s is the second postcard this month that depicts a UK location.

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Ohio blogger Linda Hughes Hiser presents A Festival of Postcard 2nd Edition: Main Street posted at Flipside, saying, “My grandparents home in Woodlawn, PA…not main street, but a main street to me!”

Linda spends “a good deal of time traveling to the various towns where my ancestors lived, taking photos of cemeteries, homes, points of interest, etc”

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Stephanie Lincecum presents A Main Street in Macon (Georgia, U.S.A.) at her blog Lincecum Lineage. Stephanie has analyzed the postcard and then used another document to tie it into her own family heritage.

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Mary Beaulieu presents Main Street, USA posted at AncestorTracking, saying, “A picture of middle America from a bygone time.” this is Mary’s tagline: “Documenting my search for information on elusive ancestors and tracking my progress through the wilds of the Internet”.

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Have you ever wondered how to determine whether a postcard is an RPPC – a Real Photo Postcard ? Do you have any idea how to date a postcard? Once again footnoteMaven of Shades Of The Departed(last month’s featured author) is helping us out – this time with her post   .. Sometimes Main Street Is The Whole Town.

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Our next entry is from the New Delhi blogger Abishek  of Abishek’s Postcrossing Blog . Abishek is the Festival’s first  participant from India. He’s a postcard collector specializing in  “postcards of UNESCO sites from all over the world”. This month he presents  a Lithuanian card depicting the   Church of St Theresa.

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Evelyn Yvonne Theriault blogs about Acadian and French Canadian genealogy and over at A Canadian Family. This month she’s sharing a Main Street frequented by her Lagace ancestors of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

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Lay Hoon is our first Malaysian postcrosser. Her blog is Travelpostcard Blogspot and she particularly enjoys map postcards such as the one she’s presenting this month that includes the main street of Olstzyn, Poland.

 

Late arrival due to a snafu!

Main Street America from Judy at Judy’s Postcards!

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