Last week’s column mentioned postcards in passing. I love postcards and have mentioned them in various contexts several times over the years. My postcard collection is getting really big — several ...

Darlene Thorne has been calling herself a deltiologist for the last 50 years, since collecting her first vintage postcard. The title may not require a diploma, but it does require a huge passion for ...

Robert Drew has never met a postcard he didn't like. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Perhaps that's why he owns more than 250,000 postcards, believed to be one of the largest private ...

I was into deltiology long before I ever heard of the word. Actually, I was worried when someone I met called me a deltiologist several years ago. Little did I know that deltiology was the hobby of ...

When Karen Martin started collecting postcards, her mother was surprised that anyone would consider these cards — which sold for a penny or two in their heyday — worth saving, much less studying and ...

Before Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, people had to mail individual postcards to make others jealous of where they were vacationing. The College of Charleston has been amassing thousands of old ...

Over the past six years, Suzanne Silverthorn has published four books on national parks in the American West, including Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite and Rocky Mountain. Each book is available to ...

MARSHFIELD -- I used to think of old postcards as just another pretty, nostalgic item. The printing quality of the colors from the early 1900s could be stunning, especially the blues, and the horses ...

Some people have been cleaning their garages and attics, since the world slowed down as the virus spread. Colin Sheehan, the Yale golf coach and a golfing polymath, has been expanding his virtual ...

Kim Aluise always liked paper and old letters. She writes to strangers around the world via postcards, and they write her back. Aluise, 49, of Harrison has amassed 350 postcards from people who live ...

Fifteen years ago Bill Schaal, a friend of John Lawson, gave him his first postcard. The card was of an old scene from Hampton, where Lawson grew up. At that moment, Lawson fell in love with ...