Postcards Redux . . .

On April 13th we published a post entitled "And So It Goes . . . " where we recounted Camera Obscura writing and asking permission to use our idea from our Postcards from Oregon. We quickly wrote back that it wasn't our idea but one that we borrowed from Legerdemaine and those wonderful Postcards from Vermont that were popular back in the day. It was our way of offering an homage for one whose boxes had given us many hours of enjoyment. Funhog wrote to clarify that, unlike our digital postcard clues, Legerdemaine's were of the true postcard variety. The Hog related that these postcards arrived mysteriously via the US Postal Service - much to the delight of the recipient.

It seems those Legerdemaine postcards were taken off of the old, archived site at the LBNA, where they sat for all who discovered them. When the powers that be at LBNA decided to discontinue that site (the archived site,) these gems were lost to cyberspace heaven. Sure, it might have been for financial reasons or just the fact that it was too difficult to maintain 2 sites with the limited resources and volunteer personnel who man the inner workings of the LBNA. But these are gems that we hate to see disappear.

Sue & I feel that these original Legerdemaine postcards are still relevant and would like to expose letterboxers old and new to them. With permission of the author, we are pleased to host several of these postcards. Please email the author, Legerdemaine, when you find them to report on their status. As far as we know, they are still viable and in place awaiting your discovery.

And, as an augmentation to the story, we'd like to ask all of you to submit your own postcard clue that we'll host on our new "Postcards from Boxers" page. Let us know if you'd like to have your trail name identified with the clue, if you'd like a town or a state or any particulars. Be sure your postcards are in jpeg format.

Oh - and we were wrong about thinking that this postcard idea began with Postcards from Vermont. Legerdemaine writes that these clues were an homage to the originator of the postcard idea - one Jay Drew of CT (you little devil, you!) - who first stoked the fires of imagination with his Postcard from Maine.

Now, with your own individual postcards, we can keep this idea alive and ever-changing.

And so it goes . . .