Readers of a certain age no doubt remember The Saturday Evening Post. Even readers born after the Post’s heyday, are probably familiar with some of its familiar Normal Rockwell covers. But, did you know of Montgomery County’s connection to the iconic American weekly? Published in Philadelphia, The Saturday Evening Post goes all the way back to 1821, but… Read More »The Saturday Evening Post and Montgomery County
In November of 1961, a fifty-six year old grandmother from Blue Bell broke the women’s ballooning endurance record in a hydrogen filled balloon called “Yellow Wolf.” Connie Wolf (née Cann) described herself to the Norristown Times-Herald as a “dedicated capitalist” who was “sick of the Russians holding all the records.” (November 21, 1961). Connie Wolf first learned… Read More »“Sick of the Russians”
Yesterday, I was looking through our postcard collection for a patron, when I came across five postcards of pigeons.