Postales Salvadoreñas del Ayer/Early Salvadoran Postcards
People of my generation remember where they were when they heard of JFK’s assassination and of the 9/11 attacks. Few recall where they were the day Y2K occurred. While the last month of 1999 will be...
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Senegalese President Léopold Senghor’s death, on December 7, 2021 Yves Thréard wrote an article in Le Figaro entitled “Il y a vingt ans, disparaissait...
Enrico Massi is an important enough figure in the history of El Salvador to have had a postage stamp issued in his name: in 1983 a ten-centavo stamp in the series “Salvadoran Air Force 50th...
Some of us more than others pay attention to punctuation: Folgers or Folger’s? However, we all recognize a rhyme when we hear it: The best part of waking upIs Folgers in your cup! My first major...
The news came from Washington DC in a 1982 State Department cable signed SHULTZ: “STEPHEN GRANT IS ASSIGNED TO CAIRO AS EDUCATION OFFICER.”
The Minangkabau region in west Sumatra, Indonesia as depicted in sepia postcards of the 1930s and evoking author Rusli Amran.
The National Palace was the largest and most elegant structure in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, as postcards attest.
For a quarter of a century––from 1880 to 1905––shipmaster Peter Strickland lived on Gorée Island in Senegal while toiling in the merchant marine.
I ended Picture Postcards of France I by promising the next deltiological stop in France would be Brittany. I lied. La Bretagne will have to wait. Because January 2021 will be one of the most devastating and trying months in our nation’s history, I thought some humor might help a wee bit.
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