Some weeks back, I was looking at stamps and covers when I came across a […]
Year: 2026
Grace Kelly: How She Met Her Prince
Some Hollywood romances start on set. Grace Kelly’s started with a car crash — and […]
Ira Hayes, a Reluctant Marine
On the morning of February 23, 1945, five days into the bloodiest fighting the Marine […]
“Mad” Anthony Wayne and the 1929 Stamp That Sealed the Northwest Territory
If you’ve been following along, you’ll have noticed a pattern forming: a run of stamps […]
Sacagawea and the 1994 Legends of the West Stamp
We’ve spent the last few posts working through a small cluster of stamps tied to […]
The Other Clark: George Rogers Clark, Fort Sackville, and the Bicolor Stamp
Ask most people to name a famous American explorer named Clark, and you’ll get “Clark” […]
The Younger Clark: William Clark and the 2004 Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Stamp
Having spent some time with the elder brother — George Rogers Clark, the frontier general […]
Frederic Remington and “The Smoke Signal”
On October 4, 1961, the United States Post Office Department issued a 4-cent stamp honoring […]
C.S. Lewis: Creating Narnia
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien met at Oxford in 1926 and became two of the […]
Octavio Paz: Poet of Solitude and Communion
In 1990, when the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Octavio Paz, […]
Where “Duke” Came From
Long before he was John Wayne, cowboy icon and the most recognizable walk in American […]
Hermes and the First Greek Stamps
When Greece issued its first postage stamps on October 1, 1861, it chose not a […]