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The Golden Age Of Postcards

The Madison Historical Society will resume its monthly History Happy Hour series on Friday, Oct. 4, from 6 to 7 pm, at the Society’s historic Allis-Bushnell House at 853 Boston Post Road, Madison.

The first History Happy Hour of the season will feature MHS trustee and Madison Town Historian Henry Griggs in a presentation entitled “Madison in the Golden Age of Postcards.” Griggs has been collecting postcards of Madison since 1998, when he received a framed collage of 12 cards as a housewarming gift. He now owns more than 800 different cards dating back to 1904. His talk will focus on Madison’s history from roughly 1905 to 1916, when the rise of leisure and travel and relaxed postal regulations combined with new printing technologies to create an environment in which hundreds of millions of hand-colored postcards were mailed annually. His PowerPoint presentation will feature a delightful array of representative examples from his collection. The suggested donation is $15/$10 for MHS members. Advance registration is requested. Please register at www.madisonhistory.org or call 203-245-4567. Admission at the door is cash only. The MHS is grateful to the Wine Thief of Madison, our beverage partner, for this series.