The APS is excited to announce the first four episodes of Stamp Chat Season 2. Keep checking back as more episodes are announced!
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Episode One: State of the APS and APRL
Date: January 30, 2024
Time: 7 pm Eastern
Summary: APS Executive Director Scott English will host and moderate a panel discussion with APS President Cheryl Ganz, APRL President Melanie Rogers, Librarian and Director of Information Services Scott Tiffney, and Editor-in-Chief Susanna Mills. Together, they will discuss the challenges and successes of 2023 and look ahead to the opportunities awaiting the APS and APRL in 2024. Topics will include the library, education, and editorial projects in the new year. Your questions and comments are welcome during this discussion.
Guests: Cheryl Ganz, APS President; Melanie Rogers, APRL President; Scott English, Executive Director; Scott Tiffney, Librarian and Director of Information Services; and Susanna Mills, Editor-in-Chief
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JHPPoLANQmuIEJ-gILlnaw
Episode Two: A Celebration of the Headsville Post Office
Date: February 27, 2024
Time: 7 pm Eastern
Summary: In the February issue of The American Philatelist, Ron Breznay, President of the Wyoming Valley Stamp Club, shares the origins of the Headsville, West Virginia Post Office, from its construction in Sheetz Mill, Virginia, to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to its current home at the American Philatelic Center in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. As a companion to the article, Ron will join Stamp Chat to share the history, share photos and images unseen in the article, and take your questions on this fascinating piece of American history and the APS community.
Guest: Ron Breznay, President of the Wyoming Valley Stamp Club
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e8eond9VRBym9O2kvK6X1Q
Episode Three: Lessons from Postal History: Mental Health and Prisoners of War
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 7 pm Eastern
Summary: COVID and international military conflicts have highlighted mental health impacts under adverse conditions. Around the world, people have experienced significant isolation, grief, and impaired communication. We gain unique and interesting insights into those challenges, adversities, and responses to positive interventions through postal history. Through the lens of Japanese World War I prisoner of war postal history, presenter Harold Krische examines how prisoners of war responded to the mental health and isolation challenges, how effectively they coped, and the circumstances that allowed those opportunities to prevail. This program touches on the postal history and methods for research with the postal history and ephemera associated with the camps.
Guest: Harold Krische, Vice President, Military Postal History Society
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hpQnd5XTS-O_qafP5tCOIA
Episode Four: Shaping the World through the Mail
Date: April 16, 2024
Time: 7 pm Eastern
Throughout the 19th century, the post office reshaped how we communicated with each other, helping to shrink the world one letter at a time. The post also shaped changes in technology and trade around the world. Join Murray Abramson, Trustee of the American Philatelic Research Library, as he takes us through the postal factors that changed technology and trade before World War II.
Guest: Murray Abramson, Trustee, American Philatelic Research Library
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pNinkZk5TLC7EVrnVN3z0w
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