Pony Express Author To Speak At Washington-Area Stamp Collecting Show
Lloyd A. de Vries
Lasting Legend of the Pony Express, will speak about the Pony Express
during NAPEX 2010, the top Washington, DC-area stamp collecting show of
the year.
The show is being held June 4-6 at Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in
McLean, Va. Corbett, who teaches journalism at the University of
Maryland-Baltimore County, will speak at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 5. and
parking are free.
This year is the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express, a private
company which carried mail and small packages between St. Joseph, Mo.,
to Sacramento, Calif. NAPEX 2010 is offering a special pictorial
cancellation for each day of the show to commemorate the express mail
service, and commemorative covers ― decorated envelopes with related
stamps and the pictorial cancellations.
The Pony Express lasted only 18 months, spurned for a mail contract by
the Post Office Department and replaced in speed by the transcontinental
telegraph.
Yet the short-lived express service lives on in popular lore.
Corbett's Orphans Preferred was just re-released for the 150th
anniversary of the Pony Express. Corbett is a former news editor with
The Associated Press, and has also written the novel Vacationland. 1994,
he has written The Back Page, an award-winning column for Style magazine
in Baltimore. He will be available to autograph copies of Orphans
Preferred copies will be for sale after his talk.
NAPEX 2010 is a World Series of Philately show, one of about 30
"national" shows, and features not only a competitive exhibition of
multi-frame stamp and cover exhibits, but also single-frame and
literature competitions. In addition, NAPEX 2010 will host the annual
meetings of three national stamp societies ― American Air Mail Society,
the Colombia/Panama Philatelic Study Group, and Society of Australasian
Specialists/Oceania.
The three-day NAPEX 2010 will also include more than 70 dealers, the
U.S. and United Nations postal administrations and Nordica, which
represents several Scandinavian countries. There is a special hotel rate
at the Hilton of $130 a night for NAPEX visitors.
For more information on NAPEX, www.napex.org or contact show chairman
Darrell Ertzberger at mte...@aol.com.