THE ART OF COMMUNICATION

"I'll write a letter soon but now, as time is pressing hard, to let you know I think of you, I send this postal card."
(Owen Card Pub. Co., Elmira, New York)

Earlier this month, we featured a few vintage postcards from this collection. To use a familiar phrase, there are lots more where those came from. We began this week by poring over another stack of these cards, and smiled at messages written over 80 years ago, such as, "When are you coming to visit us, cousin?" or "I got new boots!"

How many of us today take time to write a note to a friend just to say hello? (No, those on-vacation, "Wish you were here," cards don't count!) Has letter writing become a lost art in our society of almost-instant communication? The cards in this collection are inspiring some of us to pick up our pens a bit more often.

I LOVE NEW YORK

The next time you're in Macedon Public Library, we suggest that you take a look at the current I LOVE NEW YORK display in the case on the east side of the Bullis Room window. Several Bullis books on our state's history are featured as well as these vintage postcards from the collection:

Camp Watokalo, Adirondack Mountains, New York

Geneva on Seneca Lake

Hotel Rochester in Rochester

The Locks in Lockport, New York

Methodist Church and Parsonage in Sodus

High School in Sodus

Main Street, looking west from Maple Avenue, in Sodus

Ravine and Iron Bridge, near Chautauqua

College Hall Auditorium in Lima

Aqueduct, Palmyra

And if you're familiar with some of the places or settings in these pictures and would like to share a special memory, we'd love to hear from you. You can contact us through this blog or leave a message for us (the Bullis Committee) at the main desk.