What a great cover!
Here ya go Phil! Quite a bit of history here!
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/frdcsb7.html
The photo of the Poughkeepsie Post Office also has a post card below it of the Poughkeepsie Journal (newspaper) building. They are across the street from each other. I always liked those two buildings. They were very 18th century-like.
I used to report the baseball news from my high school by writing the short article, and then going there after our games (I was on the team as well.). I never got a byline, but I wrote them. I still have a couple of the clippings. I lost the others. I never got paid for the submissions either. I asked if I would get paid for the articles. The sports editor said if I wanted to get paid, he wouldn't run the articles. Oh well, I did get published!
Thanks Tom, i did not have space to mention the art projects. Anthony P. Russo came to one of our stamp club meetings and gave such an excellent talk on his book FDR and the post office that even i dug down and found 15 dollars to purchase his book.
Phil, do you know if there is a mural in the Poughkeepsie Post Office. I don't remember. It's only been going on a half-century since I was inside there.
Michael, i was able to scan this much of the Poughkeepsie post office mural from the FDR book. It depicts the old and new on the river... a sloop and a steamer. Of all the times i have been to the courthouse for jury and grand jury duty...i regret that i never took a walk to the post office.
When I went in the post office, I was just a teenager looking for stamps to buy. Now, I'd look about to see the architecture and such, and then buy some stamps.
I want to take one more trip to Poughkeepsie and western New England for my model railroading. I thought it might be this summer as they tossed together a high school reunion, but money isn't plentiful this year. Maybe in another year or two I'll be able to do it.
maybe I could wiggle my way into that lil soiree or tete beche a tete beche
I picked up this cover at the club auction tonight...can't get too much closer to home.Franklin Roosevelt had 5 post offices built in his native Dutchess County s part of the WPA program. Rhinebeck, Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Hyde Park and Poughkeepsie.
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
What a great cover!
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
Here ya go Phil! Quite a bit of history here!
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/frdcsb7.html
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
The photo of the Poughkeepsie Post Office also has a post card below it of the Poughkeepsie Journal (newspaper) building. They are across the street from each other. I always liked those two buildings. They were very 18th century-like.
I used to report the baseball news from my high school by writing the short article, and then going there after our games (I was on the team as well.). I never got a byline, but I wrote them. I still have a couple of the clippings. I lost the others. I never got paid for the submissions either. I asked if I would get paid for the articles. The sports editor said if I wanted to get paid, he wouldn't run the articles. Oh well, I did get published!
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
Thanks Tom, i did not have space to mention the art projects. Anthony P. Russo came to one of our stamp club meetings and gave such an excellent talk on his book FDR and the post office that even i dug down and found 15 dollars to purchase his book.
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
Phil, do you know if there is a mural in the Poughkeepsie Post Office. I don't remember. It's only been going on a half-century since I was inside there.
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
Michael, i was able to scan this much of the Poughkeepsie post office mural from the FDR book. It depicts the old and new on the river... a sloop and a steamer. Of all the times i have been to the courthouse for jury and grand jury duty...i regret that i never took a walk to the post office.
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
When I went in the post office, I was just a teenager looking for stamps to buy. Now, I'd look about to see the architecture and such, and then buy some stamps.
I want to take one more trip to Poughkeepsie and western New England for my model railroading. I thought it might be this summer as they tossed together a high school reunion, but money isn't plentiful this year. Maybe in another year or two I'll be able to do it.
re: Post Office dedication Rhinebeck,New York 1939
maybe I could wiggle my way into that lil soiree or tete beche a tete beche