Do You Keep Postcards?

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Aji: I still buy postcards, not for exactly the same reason. But what i tend to do with them is i keep a daily journal. And i pick my favorite postcards and i put them in the back of the journal during which the time in which i took that trip. Every time i open the journal, now or in the future, i see those postcards, and it reminds me of the trips. It's a wonderful thing.

Why were postcards invented and why do they still exist? Why do we lie to people and say our lives are better than they are? Alie stopped into the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and talked to curator of 40 years, Donna Braden, about her work with the postcard collections -- as well as her musings about how emotions impact memory, why Americans love to hit the open road and what the biggest postcard you're allowed to mail is. Listen while riding off into the sunset or sipping tea on a porch and then send someone you love a giant postcard because you can.

The Henry Ford Museum Postcard Archive

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