Category: Mail

Doris sent me this lovely view of Karnten where she was born.  The river is named Drau and the Kernische Alpen are in the background.  She also sent me a quote on this postcard.  Look for it in the very next post.

 This is from Anne, who sends best regards from Germany.  She also includes the quote “An optimist is someone who orders a dozen of oysters hoping to find in them the pearl to pay the bill.”  I enjoyed Anne’s quote and her quote reminds me that this blog template has a quote feature.  Perhaps I shall investigate that.  While I’m doing that, check out the stamps.

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Paivi sent me this from Finland.  She loves to spend time by the sea, traveling is number one in her life and she’s always eager to see performances.  Paivi and I would get along quite nicely.  She includes a great stamp too.

Regular commenter Sara recently visited Duluth and I got this postcard in the mail.Some part of me really wants Duluth to be in Montana.  I’m not sure why.

A certain regular commenter is reorganizing her library and coming across promotional postcards for books, which she then sends to me.  I’m not sure if she knew that Deborah Hopkinson is a local author and (I think) pretty active in SCBWI, the organization that held the conference I just attended.

She remarks on this postcard, that she’s often not heard of the books she has postcards of. Little does she know that this book is written by Darcy Pattison, whose book Novel Metamorphosis I am using to revise my current work in progress.

This is a postcard from the Art-A-Whirl Sara and Shawn went to.  This artist (Terri Myers Wentzka) has a lot of egg/nature themes and adds found lists to her art.  Very nice! Also arrieved in the mail today, postcards #2 & #3 in our Dinkytown series.  Now I can piece together the whole story.

Sara walks through this neighborhood every day on her way to the U.  Apparently, in 1970, students protested the coporatization of Dinkytown and they occupied buildings for over 40 days before they were were removed forcefully.  A now-defunct fast food chain–the Red Barn Coproration, eventually backed out of their development plans.  You can see the destruction of the original building in postacard #1, by looking at the last postcard in this post.

Sara knows this history because she and Shawn attended a local documentary inter-splices the 92 year-old documentarian’s footage from the 70s with interviews and images from the protests.  She reports that it was clear that locals from the 70s were also in the auditorium. Of the buildings, only Al’s Diner remains.  What an excellent local history lesson!  Thanks Sara!

Three postcards arrived today from Sara.  They are labeled #1, 4 and 5.  I will have to wait until #2 and #3 show up.   But what I do know is that these are my pre-visit, welcome to the neighborhood postcards.  This was a protest that grew into an uprising in 1970

Sara reports that this building is still here and so is the restaurant.  We will visit it when I visit.

This is from Heather and is not quite as blurry as it looks. Bad photo, sorry.  Heather reports that her daughter L liked the cracked bell, which had a shroud covering the yoke for unknown reasons.

Here is the famous Rocky statue, which Heather observes looks nothing like him.  Although, she reports it’s not as bad as that horrible Lucille Ball statue.

From Sara and the Walker Art Museum.  She thinks it is a hoot and I agree. Who wouldn’t want to build their own miniature decentralized city?

This is my first postcard from Slovokia!

It is from Zuzana, who when reading my appeal for postcard that picture libraries, sent me this mansion, because it shows the library in the mansion.  She also told me that my birthday is on the same day as her grandson, but that he’s only four.

She also included some great stamps.

 

This is from Beverly who lives on Port St. Lucie, Florida.  Among other facts, I learned that she has been at her job for 28 years. Like me, she enjoys crafting and sewing and reading.