Ep. 8 letters - classic family christmas newsletters (with one that's more propaganda than wholesome) 🎄✉️ Dwight D. Eisenhower 6 cent stamp c. 1969 George Washington 5 cent stamp c. 1967 White House 6 cent stamp c. 1969 #oldletters #podcast #letters #familystories #familygossip #thelettersandthings #history #americanhistory #stamps #vintagegraphicdesign #graphicdesign #xerox #christmascards #christmas
Ep. 7. This is awesome Grandpa’s awesome story about his experience in the South Pacific during WWII, the first meeting of the oceans most charming heavy cruiser, the USS Chester. ⛴️ The scariest thing: taking a train with an unknown lady on the way home. 💅 Submitted as a college essay for the University of Wisconsin, Madison - the notes from the teacher: Well written. Good organization. Spelling careless. 📝 💌 #oldletters #podcast #letters #familystories #familygossip #thelettersandthings #history #americanhistory #wwii #usschester #warstory #navalhistory #usnavy #grandpa
Ep. 6 letters - weddings, funerals, and shootin' the shit aka pen chatting FDR 6 cent stamp c. 1970 USPS 8 cent stamp c. 1971 White House 6 cent stamp c. 1971 Liberty Bell Forever stamp c. 2009 🔔 #oldletters #podcast #letters #familystories #familygossip #thelettersandthings #history #americanhistory #stamps #cats #deathcard
Ep. 5. A double wedding!!! Beachy waves Jesus!!! Sending your only daughter to a nunnery!!! But seriously what a better way to tell the loved ones of your recently departed loved one than a surfer Jesus with perfect beach goal hair. 🏄 Flag in from of White House (?) 6 cent stamp c. 1979 Edgar Lee Masters American poet 6 cent stamp c. 1971 A Washington 5 cent stamp and a Jefferson 1 cent c.1969 💌 #oldletters #podcast #letters #familystories #familygossip #thelettersandthings #history #americanhistory #stamps #nunnery #albertinum #deathcard #beachywavesjesus
Ep. 4. 🇮🇹 Posteitaliane 🇮🇹 a letter from abroad, written the number one best very professional letter writer (😅) and we began a journey with Sister Aloysa from the Albertinum that will end with grandma trying to send her daughter to a nunnery. The cutest Christmas 5 cent stamp (in front of the White House?) c. 1963 A Washington 5 cent stamp and a Jefferson 1 cent c.1969 💌 #oldletters #podcast #letters #familystories #familygossip #thelettersandthings #history #americanhistory #stamps #christmas #nunnery #albertinum #dominicansisters
Ep. 3. Is this the letter that will finally explain where grandpa Laury got his cadaver eye? Kathy Ones Christmas wishlist (abolish) provided a bounty - she didn’t have to exchange one single thing! Including a teflon griddle, which they probably should have returned. 🫣 Not post 9/11 appropriate plane over Capitol Building 8 cent stamp c. 1967 Christmas train 6 cent stamp c.1971 💌 #oldletters #podcast #letters #familystories #familygossip #thelettersandthings #history #americanhistory #stamps #christmas #cadavereye
Ep. 1 letters - We meet Jim and Joan and John and Jane (no, really) and receive a heated epistle over car mechanics in which the writer declares “I WILL SEE YOU IN COURT”. 👩⚖️ Eisenhower 6 cent stamp c. 1970 FDR 6 cent stamp c. 1968 💌 #oldletters #podcast #letters #familystories #familygossip #thelettersandthings #history #americanhistory #stamps #auntie