National Postal Museum

Hi Rick, just got in and saw your post..i am in Northern Dutchess county my back road neighbor is the old Cole Palens world war 1 aerodrome...if you look at the map..Red Hook is right accross the river from Kingston New York !

Phil

Next time I go up that way I iwll have to let you know

Rick, if we know when you are coming..we will be around..i may have to split my resources in August..my son and I go up to the track at Saratoga every year...one day..win, lose or draw...i will have to be careful I do not lose as we want to go to the Hartford APS stamp show...mabe I should go to the stamp show first and then the track..it will still have 10 days or so to go after the show !!

Phil, great but I dont think I will get any time off till next spring. I wil let you know !

15 Min from Beautiful, Buchanan on the Hudson.

Phil , Bob

its too bad my family had to move from that area it seems we would have had a nice stamp club

Rick.

There is a club in Shrub Oak, and I hear it ROCKS.

Going to check it out in the near future

Made my first visit to the NPM yesterday and had a great time. The Gross Collection Gallery and Stamp Salon Room are pretty amazing. The downstairs with the generic exhibits were OK, but as a stamp guy I could have spent a few more hours upstairs looking through the sliding cases. I didn't even get a chance to view the Imperial Russia collection they had on a rotating exhibit as there was a woman there who looked to be doing some personal research with her stockbook filled with stamps. Learned a lot of different things in terms of collecting as well as history in general. Highlight for me was the cover from the Japanese War Dept. to the Wright Brothers.

I also live "about 90 mins/$8 train ride away" but north in Maryland. I've visited NPM several times over the years. Lots of fun and quite interesting. Is it just me or did they significantly reduce the size of the gift shop after their last remodel?

Not sure about the prior size of the gift shop, but it was tiny! Still picked up a few things. One of those WW bag of stamps and a framed Very Hungry Caterpillar stamp for my son's room.