New postcard collection book, 'Durango'; Authors book signing event September 15th

The Center of Southwest Studies is pleased to announce a new publication, Durango, from Arcadia Publishing's Postcard History Series, complied and written by Fredric B. Wildfang and the Center's Archives Manager, Nik Kendziorski. A book signing will be held Thursday, September 15th from 5:00-7:00pm, in the Center of Southwest Studies' Delaney Research Library. The authors will discuss the book beginning at 5:30pm.

This collection presents a postcard tour of Durango and its environs and provides keen insight into the history and colorful character of this area, which has been a vibrant center of Southwestern Colorado for more than a century. A brief history of postcards as a convenient medium for sharing messages - and as a revolutionary departure from Victorian-era long letters - is included in the book as well. And a very special thanks is due to Nina Heald Webber for amassing the collection of these historical postcards, what she herself calls "windows to the past".

The Center is pleased to offer these books for sale at the event for $24.00.