Chester County 50plus Senior News December 2012

Postcard collector Bob Sallade preserves images

of days gone by in dozens of binders stored at his home.

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Inside:

By Chelsea Shank

Bob Sallade loves the thrill of the hunt.

And as a deltiologist—that is, someone who collects postcards—he takes

every opportunity that he can to hunt for postcards to add to his collection.

Sallade, 63, has a collection of between 4,000 and 5,000 postcards.

Collecting postcards is tied with coin collecting as the second most popular

hobby, next to collecting stamps, said Sallade.

He started his collection about six years ago.

“I went to flea markets for other reasons and I picked up five old

postcards … and that’s what started it,” Sallade said.

As a native of Central Pennsylvania, he takes a personal interest in the

history of the area and enjoys finding postcards featuring old buildings that

are no longer around and others that are still standing.

“My thrill is getting different scenes,” said Sallade.

He has postcards of a former recreational facility called Playland, which

had a roller skating rink and swimming pool where Sallade spent time as a

teenager. There are others in his collection of an old judicial center, the

Wrightsville Bridge, and hotels and motels that are no longer in operation.

“That’s the interesting part—seeing what your town used to look like,”

said Sallade.

please see MEMORIES page 12

Local History Preserved in

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Broccoli and Happy Endings

Such Is Life

Saralee Perel

My husband, Bob, attracts

lunatics. One is a stand-alone

screwball. Hey, I heard that!

It’s not me. It’s our 6-year-old cat,

Murphy. Of course we adore him, and

he’s the happiest being we’ve ever known.

Murphy’s not just dimwitted; he’s also

a thief. But he swipes things that no cat

with even half a brain would want. Well,

I’m not being fair. Murphy doesn’t have

half a brain.

There should be a sign over his head

that reads: “Vacancy.”

He’s lightning fast. One night, in a

flash, he jumped on the table, grabbed

an entire crown of broccoli that was

twice the size of his head, and raced away

with it, all the while scarfing it down so

that none of our other cats could have

what every cat dreams of (sarcastic):

broccoli.

His favorite food group? Dust balls.

Yes, we vacuum. They appear out of

nowhere like Bob’s ex-brother-in-law

who’s suddenly in our living room

wanting to

borrow

more cash.

Murphy

has an

incessant

desire to

rip tape off

UPS boxes.

When I

extract the

tape from

his throat,

he doesn’t

notice.

Can you

imagine

sticking your

fingers 3 inches down your cat’s throat

without him even caring you’re doing it?

Murphy’s race to eat everything

recently took a disastrous turn on a late

Sunday night. Bob put a pill on the

counter for

our dog,

Gracie. This

pill is so

bitter that no

pet will take

it unless

owners

disguise it in

something

tasteful. But

Murphy

made a

beeline to it

and ate it.

We called

a poison

hotline. We

were told he needed to get to a 24-hour

emergency veterinary hospital

immediately. I’m disabled and can’t move

late at night. Bob rushed Murphy to the

vet.

We figured they’d pump his stomach

and send him home. We were wrong.

Bob called me from his cell after the

vet saw Murphy.

“He has to stay here three days. They

made him vomit, but the toxin is still in

his system.” He was sobbing. “He could

lose all kidney function.”

“Did the vet say he could die?”

“Yes.”

I felt as much anguish for Bob as I did

for Murphy. He went on, “Murphy’s so

innocent,” he said, crying harder. “I hate

myself for letting this happen.”

“Oh, Sweets, you didn’t mean for this

to happen. I wish I was sitting next to

you.” We cried without speaking. Then I

said, “Don’t drive. Not when you’re like

this.”

Then I called the vet. I asked her for

emotional guidance for Bob.

Murphy

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She said, “This happens all the time.

It happened with me and my cat. He

needs to forgive himself. It’s impossible

to prevent these things 100 percent. Plus,

I’ve never heard of a cat who’d want to

eat a pill, especially one that tastes so

awful.”

“Bob’s in your parking lot. Would you

please go to him and tell him what you

told me?” And she did.

Three days later, Murphy came home

happy and healthy. When the vet called

and asked about him, I incorrectly

assumed she knew about Murphy’s

insane antics.

“He’s back to normal. He just

presented me with a dust ball the size of

a Burger King Triple Whopper! Isn’t that

great?”

“What?”

“Don’t worry,” I said, and then

cemented myself as a bonehead.

“Nobody’s getting near my broccoli

again!”

She asked to speak to Bob. I said,

“He’s busy. UPS came. Bob’s racing like a

cyclone, ripping tape off the boxes before

disaster hits. You know what he’s like

around UPS tape.”

She sounded confused. “Bob?”

I laughed, “Not Bob—”

Before I could explain she interrupted,

“Please have him call me.”

Bob’s role as a caregiver is not a role

he asked for, but one he feels blessed to

have.

He takes care of me with my spinal

cord issues, our old pet duck who’s

arthritic, our young border collie who

can never run again because of a genetic

spinal problem, and our very sick cat,

Josie, to whom Bob administers IV fluids

daily.

“How could I be so lucky?” Bob says,

every single day of his life.

Yesterday at dawn, as the light gently

filled our bedroom, I slowly turned over

to see which of Bob’s brood was in the

protection of his arms. He was cradling

beautiful Murphy, who was sound asleep

on his back in the crook of Bob’s armpit.

Bob’s eyes were open but I didn’t say a

word. I knew he was preserving the

precious moments for as long as he could

before Murphy would wake up.

I watched as Murphy opened his eyes

then curled his paw under his chin. I

heard him purr when he closed his eyes

again, preferring to remain in the safety

of Bob’s arm for just a little while longer.

And so, snuggling next to Bob, I

closed my eyes again too.

Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally

syndicated columnist. Her new book is

Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: StoriesFrom a Life Out of Balance. To find out

more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email

[email protected].

What he didn’t know was

that the first raid against

this critical target had

been one of the costliest for the

USAAF in the European Theater,

with 53 aircraft and 660 aircrewmen

lost. It had been the worst loss ever

suffered by the USAAF in a single

mission.

Ploesti was a cluster of nine oil

refineries around Ploesti, Romania,

that produced one-third of the oil

that powered the German war

machine. It was so critically

important to the German war effort

that it was guarded by 50,000

German troops and, literally,

hundreds of anti-aircraft guns.

It had been bombed many times

by American bombers from Libya,

then from Italy, by the time Fred

Lowery and his B-17 crew arrived in

their base at Foggia, Italy, and found

that Ploesti was to be their first

mission. Did they realize how

hazardous that mission would be?

“I guess the officers might have

learned that in their briefing,” he says.

“But the other enlisted men and I

had no idea.

“We were being checked out on

our first mission, and we all flew on

different crews, to give us some

experience before flying in combat

together as a crew. I learned after the

mission that our navigator and

bombardier had been shot down and

had become prisoners of war. Worse

still, our waist gunner had been killed

by flak.

“We were then all split up and sent

to different crews, as needed. Only

once did I ever fly again with any of

our original crew, and that was on my

17th and final mission. My original

copilot had become a first pilot, and

he flew the mission to bomb an oil

refinery near Vienna.

“Strangely enough,” he explains, “I

came closer to buying the farm on

that mission than on any other. For

the first time, we had with us a guy

who was operating a ‘flak jammer.’

This was a device that confused the

radar that guided the German ack-ack

guns.

“While we were flying at 28,000

feet, he kicked me and pointed to my

main oxygen line. It had been severed

by flak, so, although I was breathing,

what I didn’t realize was that I wasn’t

getting any oxygen. I was able to

quickly uncouple my oxygen line and

couple it to his. If it hadn’t been for

him, I surely would have died.”

Lowery wouldn’t have been there

at all if he hadn’t been called by the

draft board when he was 18 years old

and still a senior in high school. His

father was a minister, and Lowery had

grown up in a strictly religious home.

So he says he was rather looking

forward to striking out on his own.

The Army sent him to Miami for

basic training, then to Sioux Falls,

S.D., for radio school. It was then to

Yuma, Ariz., for gunnery school, and

to Salt Lake City to join a B-17 crew.

After combat training at Biloxi, Miss.,

the crew flew to Newfoundland and

the Azores on their way to their base

in Foggia, Italy.

Thinking back to the missions he

flew, he says, “We were really lucky.

We really had to worry only about

flak. The German fighter planes had

been decimated by the time we got

there. We never saw a one. Once, flak

knocked out one of our engines and

we fell behind the group until we

were all alone. Our tail gunner then

found a fighter coming at us. But,

when it got closer, we found it was

one of ours. So I never got to fire a

gun.”

Lowery returned to the U.S. in late

1944 and served at several bases

before being discharged as a tech

sergeant at Fort Indiantown Gap in

1948. He returned home, entered

Franklin and Marshall College, and

earned a B.A. in history in January

1950. He then entered seminary at

the Dallas Theological Seminary,

earning a Master of Theology degree

in 1954.

He joined the Army Reserve in

1957 as a first lieutenant and served

as chaplain at many bases and

hospitals before retiring from the

Reserve as a lieutenant colonel in

1995.

In civilian life, he served as

minister of a United Brethren Church

for 27 years. In retirement, he was

asked if he would be interested in

serving as minister for his father’s

church. He readily accepted the call

and served there for 16 more years

before settling in a retirement

community with his wife, Cora Jean.

Lowery says that, despite his years

since then, he still thinks of those

exciting, dangerous months of

missions over Europe as if they were

yesterday.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in

Europe in World War II.

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Calendar of EventsCoatesville Area Senior Center – (610) 383-690022 N. Fifth Ave., Coatesville – www.cascweb.org

Downingtown Senior Center – (610) 269-3939983 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtownhttp://home.ccil.org/~dasc

Great Valley Senior Center – (610) 889-2121 47 Church Road, Malvern

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Dec. 16, 1 to 3:15 p.m. – Sunday Dinner with Friends

Oxford Senior Center – (610) 932-524412 E. Locust St., Oxford – www.oxfordseniors.org

Phoenixville Area Senior Center – (610) 935-1515153 Church St., Phoenixvillewww.phoenixvilleseniorcenter.org

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Wednesdays in December, 9 to 10 a.m. – Warwick Walkers, Warwick County Park

Wednesday and Saturdays in December, 9 to 10 a.m. – Hibernia Hiking Club, Hibernia County Park

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Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.The Wellness Community of

Philadelphia: Support Group for

People with Cancer

The Cancer Center at Paoli

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255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli

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Dec. 4, 2 p.m.Grief Support Group

Phoenixville Senior Center

153 Church St., Phoenixville

(610) 327-7216

Dec. 5, 6 p.m.Memory Loss and Dementia Support

Group

Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli

324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern

(610) 251-9994

Dec. 10, 7 to 8 p.m.Cancer Support Group: Double

Hope of Chester County

Calvary Fellowship Church

95 W. Devon Drive,

Downingtown

(484) 319-8167

Dec. 10 and 24, 10:30 a.m. to12:30 p.m.Caregiver Support Group

Adult Care of Chester County

201 Sharp Lane, Exton

(610) 363-8044

Dec. 12, noonFamily Caregiver Support Group

Sarah Care

425 Technology Drive, Suite 200,

Malvern

(610) 251-0801

Dec. 18, 6 p.m.Family Caregiver Support Group

Sunrise of Westtown

501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester

(610) 399-4464

Community Programs Free and open to the public

Dec. 1 and 2, 1 to 5 p.m.Model Railroad Open HouseSchuylkill Valley Model Railroad

Club

400 S. Main St., Phoenixville

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Dec. 1 and 15, 5 to 10 p.m.Bingo Nights

Marine Corps League Detachment

430 Chestnut St., Downingtown

(610) 431-2234

Dec. 3, 6:30 p.m.Exton PC Club – Open House

Chester County Library Struble

Room

450 Exton Square Parkway, Exton

(484) 876-1221

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Days Hotel

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What’s Happening?

Clean Your Air with theRight Houseplants

Clean air is essential to good health at home and in

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One simple way to keep the air you breathe fresh and

free of odors and chemicals is to keep a few houseplants

around. They’ll clean the atmosphere and make your

surroundings more pleasant and relaxing.

Pick up some of these:

English ivy. This climbing vine grows in hanging

baskets and low planters, and it helps clear away

formaldehyde. (Be aware that it requires regular misting,

especially during the winter months.)

Peace lily. A flowering plant, the peace lily will

eradicate toxins like acetone, benzene, and ammonia

from the air. Remember to wash the leaves every one in

awhile.

Rubber plant. This plant is hardy enough to survive

cool temperatures and low light, making it ideal even if

you’re not particularly good with plants. Like the

English ivy, it acts to reduce formaldehyde in the air as

long as it gets plenty of water.


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Who Do I Look Like?

Older But Not Wiser

During the past year I have been

told several times by people

younger than me that I look like

someone.

No, not the same someone, many

different someones. I’ve been told I look

like Billy Graham, Billy Crystal, Hugh

Hefner (even though I don’t wear

pajamas in public), Bob Dylan, Tony

Bennett, and Ed Koch (the former mayor

of New York).

In addition, just the other day I had

an extremely weird conversation with a

middle-aged guy at the checkout line at

the supermarket.

“You look like that actor,” he told me.

“What actor?” I asked.

“You know, that actor.”

“Oh, him.” At this point I just wanted

to get out of the supermarket and away

from this guy. However, he was

relentless.

“He’s in a lot of comedies but he also

does serious pictures, you know, with

heart.”

“So he has a lot of range,” I said.

“Exactly. You look like the actor with

a lot of range.”

“OK, great,” I replied. “I’ll make sure

I see the next picture he’s in.”

“I’m pretty sure he’s dead.”

“So I looked like him before he passed

away?” I asked.

“Yeah, he probably doesn’t look too

good now.”

At first this whole series of “lookalike”

events was kind of amusing to me, and

then I realized what might be happening.

It’s not that I look like a celebrity, even

though I’d love to go on tour as Bob

Dylan.

It’s that people younger than us think

that we seniors all look alike. All they see

is the gray hair and the wrinkles. They

probably also see the turkey neck, but

let’s not dwell on that.

Or maybe, and this is even worse, as

we get older we do all start to look alike.

We become kind of … a generic version

of what we once were. I guess if this is

true, there’s one semi-positive side

effect—all the cool guys I envied in high

school now look like me.

Ironically, when I was a teenager I

desperately wanted to look like

everybody else. I just wanted to blend in.

However, now I wanted to fight this

anonymity.

I started to think of ways to make

myself stand out. I was thinking of

wearing something all the time, like a

scarf, that would become my trademark.

But then I would be known as “the guy

with the scarf ” and I don’t want to take

second billing to an article of clothing.

Then I thought of maybe getting a

tattoo. I’ve seen guys with Chinese

lettering tattooed on their arms or neck. I

could have a have tattoo that says AARP.

I have a feeling no one’s ever done that.

And then, all of the sudden, the

insanity stopped. I’d like to think that it

was a sudden burst of maturity on my

part, but actually it was the fear of the

tattoo needle that brought me to my

senses. I realized that if some younger

people can’t tell us apart, that’s their

problem. We seniors are definitely

unique individuals with unique looks.

I, for example, am just a regular guy

who happens to look like Cary Grant.

Hey, the guy at the supermarket couldn’t

remember the actor’s name, so I get to

fill in the blanks.

Note: If you’re looking at my picture

now and trying to figure out who I really

look like—it was taken seven years ago and

in the right light (semi-darkness).

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The clock strikes midnight.

Fireworks explode. Confetti fills the

air. And I get a chance to make a

whole new set of resolutions, some of

which I may even keep. How can I

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Year’s Day? What’s more, if

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Squeezing two such festivities into

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the internationally accepted

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Then, several weeks later, partake

in a traditional Chinese New Year’s

celebration, the date of which is set

according to the age-old Chinese

calendar. (In 2013, Chinese New

Year will fall on Feb. 10.)

Here, two places that celebrate the

new year in very different ways.

Savannah, Ga.As midnight approaches, people

make their way to the upper deck of the

three-tiered riverboat. They’ve been

partying for more than three hours—

dancing to live music, feasting on hors

d’oeuvres and a buffet of elegant

offerings. Now, as fireworks from

nearby Tybee Island color the sky, it’s

time to welcome the new year.

On shore, Savannah’s famed City

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buildings, is filled with landlubbers who

are enjoying the city’s biggest street

party. Some are dining in one of the

many restaurants; others are enjoying

the free entertainment outside.

Then the countdown begins, and a

man lifts his son to his shoulders for a

better view of the fireworks. Another

man lifts his drink as the band strikes

up “Auld Lang Syne.” The new year has

officially begun.

The next day, more than 2,000

people, presumably recovered from the

previous night’s revelry, gather on Tybee

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More than 2,000 people partake in a

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Savannah.

Lion dancers provide

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Richmond, British Columbia, have just

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and glass ornaments that represent the

Western holiday season when they begin

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In Richmond, this second welcoming

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This isn’t surprising, given that the city

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Walking the streets of the area known

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the water is safe to drink, and most

people understand English.

Festivities begin approximately two

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up special booths where vendors hawk

elaborate flower arrangements and

special holiday treats. At Landsdowne

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demonstrate their skill in martial arts;

and expert calligraphers make banners

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long bao (steamed dumplings filled with

minced pork and jellied broth).

“These are packages of good fortune,”

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Seafood dishes are supposed to bring

prosperity because in ancient times only

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while eating long, uncut noodles foretells

a long life. Sweet, sticky rice is served as

a reminder that families should “stick

together” and support one another.

After dinner, many folks go to the

Aberdeen Mall, where the new year is

welcomed with speeches, lion dancing,

and lots and lots of confetti. Others go

to the Kuan Yin Temple of the

International Buddhist Society, which is

modeled in part after the Forbidden City

in Beijing. It is considered by many to

be one of the most magnificent Buddhist

temples in North America.

There, they greet the new year with

prayer, many even staying overnight in

order to be among the first to receive

blessings in the new year. By noon on

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congregated at the temple for a prayer

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“Yes,” I say to myself as I munch on

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Are there any new or different types of

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Dear Carol,

There are actually several different

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year, along with a new FDA-approved

shot for pneumonia. Here are your

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Flu ShotsJust as they do every year, the CDC

strongly recommends a seasonal flu shot

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important for seniors who are more

vulnerable. The flu puts more than

200,000 people in the hospital each year

and kills around 24,000—90 percent of

whom are seniors.

This year, all seniors 65 and older

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this time of year—is the pneumococcal

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Pneumococcal diseases hospitalize around

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At the Trinity House in Berwyn,

something unexpected has been

transpiring since they were introduced

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Many people he shows his collection

to do not know that when Milton

Hershey first started manufacturing

Hershey’s chocolate bars, he included

postcards with them as a way to

advertise, Sallade said.

“There are a total of 78 different ones

and I have 77,” he said. “I’m missing one

but it is hard to locate.”

Besides finding the last of the

postcards from Hershey’s chocolate bars,

Sallade said that he has no set goal or

finish line in sight for his postcard

collection. Selling postcards is a popular

way to regroup collections and make

room for more, or to simply make a

profit, but for now his collection remains

a hobby that he enjoys.

Sallade has been retired for five years

from his job as a florist. His grandfather

started the business in 1898 and Sallade

said he worked there since he could hold

a broom in his hand. He majored in

horticulture at Ohio State University

before returning to the family business.

Since retiring, Sallade and his wife,

Caryn, have had more time to travel to

places like Canada and Ireland, and he

purchases postcards everywhere that he

goes.

He has paid as little as 10 cents for a

postcard and as much as $250, he said.

Looking for them at flea markets is more

fun and the price is usually better as well,

said Sallade.

But sometimes postcards he finds for

sale online are only a few dollars.

“It is something that varies

considerably,” Sallade said.

While the bulk of his postcard

collection is from what Sallade calls “the

golden age of postcards,” between 1900

and 1915, he certainly does not shy away

from new postcards.

“I buy new ones too, because some

day they are going to be old,” he said.

He stores the postcards in notebooks

that have plastic liners to protect each

card and has the chance to display the

cards at his postcard club’s monthly

meetings.

Sallade is president of the club. He is

also one of the youngest members, with

the average age of the 45 club members

being between 65 and 70 years.

The club has been around for more

than 30 years and meets monthly at a

local church.

“We welcome anybody to come to

visit,” said Sallade. “We have a speaker

every month or sometimes we do a

display. This month everyone will be

displaying their Thanksgiving or

Christmas postcards.”

Sometimes the club holds events

where vendors come to purchase

postcards from the club members. He

said there are postcard clubs that meet in

York, Lancaster, and Carlisle.

And although so much of the world is

switching to digital, postcard collectors

like Sallade say that the postcard is

something that will always be around.

“I think there is always an interest in a

postcard of some place where someone

went to visit,” said Sallade.

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Book Review

Afascinating psycho-biography,

Jackie O: On the Couch takes

readers into the mind of

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

through a first-person, autobiographical

narrative. The book delves into Jackie’s

childhood and helps the reader

understand how and why she became the

person she was. It also explores JFK’s

background and the ways it affected his

marriage.

Jackie’s deep love for Jack, the cat-and-

mouse game he played before their

engagement, his early inattentiveness, the

difficult years they spent together, along

with details of his outrageous

womanizing and their happier times at

the White House late in the marriage—

all are viewed through her

eyes. A poignant

description of Jack’s

assassination and funeral

is recounted.

The book also looks

into the widow Jackie’s

need for Aristotle

Onassis. She debunks the

idea that she married Ari

purely for his money. The

joyful early years and the

gradual collapse of the

marriage are described, as

is Ari’s death.

Jackie’s successful entry into the

publishing world, and how the work

helped to define her, follows. A new

Jackie emerges, who is

probably closer to the one

she would have become

had she not been first

lady.

Her new persona allows

her to form the best

relationship of her life,

with the elderly, stout,

and adoring Maurice

Tempelsman, who gave

her the love, devotion,

and constancy she never

received from her two

husbands.

The book also carefully follows the

progress of the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

disease that led to Jackie’s death at age

63—from her fierce denial to the gradual

acceptance that she would not survive.

Jackie O: On the Couch is available

from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and

directly from Bancroft Press at

www.bancroftpress.com.

About the AuthorAlma H. Bond received her Ph.D.

from Columbia University and became a

highly successful psychoanalyst for 37

years in New York City. Jackie O: On the

Couch, the first of her On the Couch

series to be published, received a

Pinnacle Book Achievement Award and

Finalist International Book Award. She

has also had 19 other books published.

She lives in Carlisle, Pa.

Jackie O: On the CouchInside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis

By Alma H. Bond, Ph.D.

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