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December 2005
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Family Day visitors
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12/17/05: Seasons Greetings Family Day
'Tis the season to celebrate winter holidays. Visitors made a holiday stamp collection, read holiday stories, and created seasonal greetings to send to someone special.
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Holiday card creators displaying their talents
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12/3/05: Holiday Card Workshop
Mary Arcuri, local art teacher, returned once again for this popular workshop where she guided visitors of all ages in creating hand-crafted cards to celebrate winter holidays. Beautiful materials, cancelled stamps, and holiday sentiments were provided for assembling unique cards for families and friends.
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November 2005
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Above:
Dr. Frank H. Goodyear
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11/16/05: The Many Faces of Red Cloud
The National Postal Museum celebrated American Indian Heritage Month with a lecture by Dr. Frank H. Goodyear, assistant curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. Dr. Goodyear explored the collaboration between the Lakota chief Red Cloud and the different photographers who created his portrait. He also examined the image of Red Cloud as it appears on a postage stamp.
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October 2005
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More than 1500 teachers gathered for Smithsonian Teachers' Night.
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10/21/05: 13th Annual Smithsonian Teachers' Night
More than 1500 teachers gathered at the National Postal Museum for the 13th annual Smithsonian Teachers' Night to celebrate the power of museums to enhance learning. Participants enjoyed demonstrations, tours of the National Postal Museum and opportunities to learn about the Smithsonian's educational exhibitions, programs and resources. Thirty Smithsonian museums and offices showcased their educational resources, distributed publications and answered questions about their education programs.
Smithsonian Teachers' Night was hosted by the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS), the central education office of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Above:
Roger Brody
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10/15/05: "Second Purpose" − The Fourth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture
Renowned Philatelist Roger Brody discussed the fascinating, illuminating, and little-known stories about changes in the development and use of America's postage stamps since 1847. The Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture Series explores and interprets new philatelic research. It is named in honor of Maynard Sundman, founder of the Littleton Stamp and Coin Company. |
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Beatlemania Now performing in the Museum's Atrium.
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10/9/05: Open House: John Lennon − The Lost Album
Beatlemania Now performed at the National Postal Museum's open house on October 9th. The event was a celebration of the 65th anniversary of John Lennon's birth and National Stamp Collecting Month. Visitors received stamp collecting starter kits that included postage stamps featuring John Lennon. |
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September 2005
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Hispanic Heritage Celebration participants learning Latin dancing.
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9/29/05: Hispanic Heritage Celebration
D.C. LEARNs and the National Postal Museum hosted visitors of all ages to
share the sights, sounds, and diversity of Hispanic Heritage Month. Participants discovered the power of letters, immersed themselves in the beauty of Latino stamps, and even learned a few dance moves! |
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Expert calligraphers and participants at the Lovely Lettering: Calligraphy Demonstration.
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9/14/05: Lovely Lettering: Calligraphy Demonstration
Ann Pope and Lorraine Swerdloff of the Washington Calligraphers Guild celebrated the art and elegance of calligraphy, showcasing various alphabet styles while explaining their intriguing techniques. |
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August 2005
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Authors Irene Kelly and Dirk Wales read from their books.
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8/13/05: Exploratory Post: Owney
Highlighting Owney (as you know, he is the dog mascot of the Railway Mail Service) and the dog days of summer, Author Dirk Wales signed his book "A Lucky Dog" and read from it to an audience of all ages, as did Irene Kelly, author of "A Small Dog's Big Life." Other children's activities included created dog-inspired stamp designs, making dog tags to represent visitor's hometowns, watching the mutascope video about Owney, following a stamp walk story about the Little Letter's journey to Owney's mailbox, sorting mail in the Railway Post Office car, and looking for dogs around the museum galleries on a "Hound Hunt." |
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July 2005
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Above:
2005-2006 Federal Duck Stamp artist Mark Anderson
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7/1/05: 2005 Federal Duck Stamp Ceremony
Federal Duck Stamp artist Mark Anderson, Junior Duck Stamp artist Kerissa Nelson and the Assistant Director for Migratory Birds Paul Schmidt were featured speakers at the First Day of Sale ceremony for the 2005-2006 Federal Duck Stamp. After the ceremony, Anderson, Nelson, Schmidt, Federal Duck Stamp judges and other honored guests autographed stamps, programs and covers. Ceremony guests viewed the temporary 2005-2006 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Exhibit and visited the Museum's exhibition, "Artistic License – The Duck Stamp Story." |
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June 2005
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The Congressional Chorus performs in the Museum's Atrium
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6/17/05: Yip Harburg: A Musical Celebration
The Museum's Atrium was transformed into a concert hall when The Congressional Chorus performed well-known songs by composer Yip Harburg. The musical celebration included selections from The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, Brother Can You Spare a Dime? and others. After the program, the stamp store had the recently released Yip Harburg commemorative stamp available for purchase.
Click here to see a video clip of this performance by The Congressional Chorus (34 second video clip, QuickTime Player required).
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Above:
Randy Smidt (right) of the DC Z-Bend Track Group
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6/25/05: Model Railroad Workshop
Randy Smidt and members of the DC Z-Bend Track Group helped the National Postal Museum celebrate Railway Mail at Trains!, a family program. Two local railroad clubs, the DC Z-Bend Track Group and the Rappahannock Model Railroad Club, displayed their model railways. Jeff Springer of Custom Model Railroads presented a workshop highlighting the basic strategies for constructing model railroads. Frank Scheer, curator of the Railway Mail Service Library presented two 1950s films about the Railway Mail Service. In addition visitors of all ages listened to "Mailing May" (the story of a little girl sent by Railway Mail), took the Railway Mail Sorting Challenge, tested their train talk trivia, created transportation-inspired stamp collections, and explored the museum via the train parade.
(15 second video clip, QuickTime Player required). |
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May 2005
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Above:
Richard John presenting, "Agent of Change: The Postal System and the Making of Modern America"
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5/12/05: Agent of Change: The Postal System and the Making of Modern America
University of Illinois at Chicago historian Richard R. John explored the role of the postal system in American business, culture, and public life. John discussed why historians of the Internet are looking to the postal system-and NOT the telegraph-as the most relevant precursor to the information networks of modernity. Dr. John's illustrated talk was drawn from his forthcoming book on the political origins of American telecommunications. |
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April 2005
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Above:
Participants in "What Handwriting Tells" workshop
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4/16/05: "What Handwriting Tells" Handwriting Analysis Workshop
Experienced graphologists Milton Moore and JoNeal Scully introduced the
world of graphology and the information it offers about people's personalities. |
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Participants in "Philately In Action" workshop
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4/14/05: Philately in Action
Museum visitors learned the basics of stamp collecting which included activities such as stamp soaking and
sorting. Visitors created stamp collections
to take home. |
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From left, United States Postmaster General Jack Potter, Smithsonian Government Relations Director Nell Payne, Lockheed Martin Distribution Technologies President Judy Marks, United States Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman James Miller and National Postal Museum Director Allen Kane
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4/6/05: Stamps Take Flight Opening Ceremony
The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum hosted a reception on Wednesday, April 6 to celebrate the opening of “Stamps Take Flight,” a new exhibition that uses stamps and other objects with aviation themes to illustrate how stamps are made. Remarks were given by National Postal Museum Director Allen Kane, United States Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman James Miller, United States Postmaster General John Potter, Smithsonian Government Relations Director Nell Payne and Lockheed Martin Distribution Technologies President Judy Marks.
“Stamps Take Flight” features one-of-a-kind and rare items from the United States Postmaster General’s Collection of the United State Postal Service; it also includes objects from the U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the U.S. Air Force and the National Postal Museum. |
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March 2005
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Above: Participants at the Women and Aviation Girl Scout and Family Festival. Photograph courtesy of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital.
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3/12/05: Women and Aviation Girl Scout and Family Festival
The Education Department successfully participated in the Women and Aviation Girl Scout and Family Festival March 12, 2005 at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center. The program presented in collaboration with the Udvar-Hazy Center and the National Capitol Girl Scout Council attracted crowds numbering in the thousands. Girl Scout troops and museum visitors made their way around the museum from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. participating in the assortment of educational activities provided by the more than 30 organizations present. The National Postal Museum allowed participants to make their own stamp collection, take the women in science stamp challenge, write an opinionated letter, and explore the Udvar-Hazy center using a specially designed self-guided tour. The tour allowed visitors to explore museum objects and make connections between objects associated wth female pilots, the stamps that feature women aviators, and the NPM.
With these activities, the Education Department served approximately 1,329 program participants. |
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February 2005
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Above:
Museum visitors, Valentines Day
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2/14/05: Be My Valentine!
Museum visitors used an array of beautiful collage materials to make Valentine's Day greeting cards of thanks and appreciation to letter carriers, friends and loved ones.
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(left) Public program assistant A. Theresa Bragg
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2/12/05: Exploratory Post: African Americans on Stamps
Public program assistant A. Theresa Bragg inspires young museum visitors as they create poetry collages about dreams in honor of Black History Month. |
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January 2005
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Left to right: Allen Kane, The Honorable Ted Stevens, The Honorable John Potter, Secretary Lawrence Small, Murray Comarow
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1/5/05: Postmaster General Honored at Museum
On January 5, 2005 the Smithsonian Institution honored the Postmaster General and the United States Postal Service for its support and dedication to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. The reception was sponsored by A.T. Kearney, the global management company. Guests included friends of the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Postal Service. |
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Left to right: NPM Director, Allen Kane and President of the Shanghai Post Office, Wang Guan Chang
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1/1/05: Shanghai Post Museum Opening Ceremony
Director Allen Kane as well as Patricia Raynor and Bill Lommel of the NPM staff attended the inaugural ceremonies of the Shanghai Post Office Museum which opened on January 1, 2005. The National Postal Museum lent exhibit panels from its Posted Aboard RMS Titanic exhibit, which focused on the lives of the five mail clerks sailing on the ship. NPM also lent Shanghai Post a 19th century US mailbag and a watch which belonged to Titanic mail clerk John Starr March. This pioneering loan to China is the National Postal Museum's first loan to a museum in Asia. |
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