"Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here!"
Tuesday, October 28th at 7:30 pm

Yorktown Community & Cultural Center, Nutrition Room - 1st Floor
1974 Commerce Street, Yorktown Heights
Architect, working in Historic Preservation, James Rhodes will present "Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here!" Jim's photographic images of his travels around the world are the images of today's postcards, but for Jim, they are a comprehensive document of his architectural and preservation work, restoring some of the most treasured buildings around the world. This Croton resident has also worked on buildings closer to home, Grand Central Terminal and the Guggenheim Museum to name a few. Just what does he do? Join us to find out as he spans the world with architectural wonders.

"Peekskill's African American History:
A Hudson Valley Community's Untold Story"

John Curran, Peekskill City Historian, will talk about the African American story
in this area based upon his research for his new publication
"Peekskill's African American History: A Hudson Valley Community's Untold Story".

Clizia Gussoni - Touring the Myth and Romance of Rome
In her postcard presentation, Clizia Gussoni will showed vintage postcards
of the cosmopolitan Italian city of Rome and disclose the ancient lore that holds many mystical references.

Todd Weseloh talked about the early history of postcards. Todd along with Bob Bogdan, recently published the landmark book "The Real Photo Postcard Guide", already an important reference book in the field of real photo postcards.

Co-Hosted by the Friends of the Yorktown Museum and the Yorktown Historical Society, local resident Dick Schriener talked about the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909. This event celebrated our Hudson River heritage and the contributions of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. Postcards remain an important legacy of this event.

Ed Levine on Central Park in NYC and its long history including the postcards produced of this landmark city park. Ed's book with Arcadia Press has recently been released.

Taconic Postcard Club

"Next Stop Chappaqua: A Train Buff and Collector's View Over the Past 140 Years."
Presented by: Steve Swirsky

Focused on the relationship between the railroad and the Westchester community of Chappaqua over the past 140 years. Included in the presentation were numerous postcard images of train stations on the Harlem Line from Chappaqua south to Grand Central as well as images of the old Putnam Line and the New York Westchester & Boston Electric Railroad that linked the Bronx and White Plains from 1912 - 1937.

Mt. Beacon Incline
Presented by: Jim Bopp and Andrew Chiusano

Jim Bopp and Andrew Chiusano spoke about the Mt. Beacon Incline at the height of its popularity during the Golden Age of postcards.

Fort Ticonderoga: A Postcard History
Presented by: Carl Crego

Located on Lake Champlain in the Adirondacks, Fort Ticonderoga is an 18th century fort from the French and Indian War and American Revolution, with a museum of military history and historic gardens.

Art of Japanese Postcards from the Leonard Lauder Collection
Presented by: Anne Nishimura Morse

Anne Nishimura Morse, Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, is responsible for cataloguing and documenting the wonderful and extensive collection of Japanese art postcards donated by Leonard Lauder. In the museum publication of last year Anne brings to us information about the artists, the cultural and the techniques used in the Art Nouveau to Art Deco period contributing to some of the most exquisite cards.

While the Art Nouveau style of the 1890s was developing in Western Europe, Japanese artists were contributing and forming their own very special style using artistic and printing techniques unfamiliar to the Western world.

Curator’s Perspective
Presented by: Megan Hahn Fraser

Library Director at the Independence Seaport Museum, Megan Hahn Fraser, brings an interesting perspective to postcards and the collectors. The nature of a postcard presents a special challenge and reward for a museum or library curator in terms of housing, organization, access and exhibition. What are good ways to store postcards in order to preserve them? How should they be described so that researchers can find them and use them for different purposes? What are the different ways they can be used in exhibitions, and how should they be displayed? What does a postcard collection tell us about the collector? What does the future hold for postcards, collections and museum collecting? Megan provides a special bonus when you realize that she is helping us realize the importance of our own collections.

Real Photo – The Ultimate Collection
Real Photo Postcards Presented by: Harvey Tulcensky

While photographic images have long appeared on postcards a Real Photo postcard refers to a very special process in postcard production that often captured the most personal and rarer events of a town or its people. NYC resident Harvey Tulcensky brings with him the often times unique images that appear in his new book – The Ultimate Collection, an interesting retrospective of images that tell a story.