American Revolution Sestercentennial

Too early to start talking about this? I had to look up the correct term, and yes, that's what a 250th anniversary is called. This anniversary is now a bit more than 8 years away. We got our first Bicentennial stamps in 1971, 5 years before the event. What does anyone think or has anyone heard? Will it be commemorated as much as 1976? Will we get a ton of new stamps for the topic over a period of years? The Bicentennial arrived just a few years after I began collecting. Being a young history nerd, I loved it. I'd rather have a bunch of new stamps on this topic than more stamps about Disney characters, flowers, or international food. Thoughts?

Really good questions, DaveG28. The USPS might be well advised to issue very bland sesquicentennial stamps over the next few years in fear they will offend the right, the left, the center, the north, the south, the east, the west, the generation X, the millennials or the never-this-that-or-the-other-thingers, or even the collecters-vs-accumulaters. I'm sure I've missed some easily offended group, and humbly apologize to them in advance.

http://colrain250.blogspot.com/2011...0-years.html

What's wrong with saying 250th Anniversary since the purpose of language is to CLEARLY let the listener know what the SPEAKER is talking about? Sestercentennial seems little pompous and elite.

Glenn...not trying to sound pompous. I just assumed there was a term for 250, just like we had the term bicentennial for 200. I never thought that sounded pompous either. I looked it up, and that's the term for 250. Apologies.

While I appreciate that "sestercentennial" is correct, it has no chance of widespread use in today's anti-intellectual, social media world. Modern marketing will give us

#America250

or something like that.

You're probably right, cj. At any rate...the stamps? Can we expect a bevy of issues similar to the 1976 era?

Canada's 150th was celebrated by Canada Post this way. Each stamp has a different story

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/pa...n%7Cjr%7C309

.....and I have no intention to highjack DaveG28's post which is very interesting

Those were great, Renden. Prompted me to make my first order from Canada Post.

The US 150 anniversary was called sesquicentennial. I remember the Bicentennial so well as we lived in the middle of it - Bedford, Massachusetts. Lexington was the town east and Concord was the town west. The minutemen marched right past our house on their way to Concord.

Jack Kelley