YORK, Pa. – Glenn Miller will be present at the York Book and Paper Fair in April. So will Benny Goodman, the “King of Swing.” Both Dorsey brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, will be there.

In 1967 I was twenty years old, in the middle of college, and facing the Vietnam draft. So I have paid nostalgic attention to the 40th anniversary of one of the great cultural events of my generation.

Vampires, ghosts, goblins, witches, and mummies are traditional characters in the repertoire of scary stories told on dark Halloween nights, calculated to amuse or perhaps scare young children.

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala. Her parents were Captain Arthur Keller, a former Confederate Army officer, and his wife, Kate, who was a cousin to Robert E. Lee.

This is the second in a two-part series on Kraemer Company postcards of Cincinnati, Ohio. In the first part [published in the Feb. 3 issue] we learned the Kraemer Art Co. became famous for producing  private mailing cards among others. Collectors pursue Kraemer’s souvenir cards featuring important buildings, street scenes and skylines.

When American movies began, there were no movie stars. In the early 1900s during the Nickelodeon era it was almost impossible to get stage actors and actresses to work in the movies.

In the earliest years of the 20th century no holiday inspired a larger number or a more beguiling display of colorful, historic and patriotic postcards than did Memorial Day.

Real photo postcards document many aspects of history that are relatively absent in other forms of information. Postcard photographers lived in the communities they photographed and had access to the details of everyday life as common people experienced it.

Bachelors have long been the butt of much humor – some of it burlesque, some of it dark. To help alleviate their condition and allow them to escape the fate traditionally assigned to lonely, single men, legend and folklore give maidens the right to pop the question themselves once every four years.