The museum at 6549 N. Chestnut St., Ravenna, is open from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Since 1994, Marj Schlaeppi of Cuyahoga Falls has produced fine postcards of her home area. The Seiberling Naturealm has the Signal Tree, which I went to photograph on the Equinox at sunrise. The whole area was socked in with heavy fog. Nordonia Hills Library in Northfield Center is showing cards from Dorothy Hrdlicka of Northfield Village, Western Reserve Post Card Society's corresponding secretary.
Many books tell about postcards.
I prize the coffee-table volume, A History of Postcards , from school librarian Dan MacLachlan shortly before his death at 55 in May 1996. Author Martin Willoughby, a cataloguer for Phillips Auctioneers, filled 159 pages with views in color. Ohio scenes recorded The University of Akron Press last year published Ohio's Railway Age in Postcards by H. Roger Grant. Ralph H. Delap of Minerva, an Akron Railroad Club member, also loaned cards. He was president of the Western Reserve Post Card Society in 1989.