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Thursday, February 21, 2008, by Editor

Postcard Delivered Fifty Years Late

A post card from Maine has created a mystery at town hall, in Stratford, Conn., arriving 50 years after it was mailed. The postcard, sealed in clear cellophane, was postmarked Aug. 14, 1957, and bears a 2-cent stamp, was mailed from the East Sumner, Maine, post office, which no longer exists, and was addressed to one-time Town Manager Harry Flood, who has been dead for nearly 40 years. Town historians are now trying to determine why the post card has arrived at Town Hall over 50 years after it was post marked.

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Officials have a history mystery on their hands in the form of a cellophane-wrapped postcard mailed from a post office long closed to a town manager long dead.

The postcard mailed from East Sumner, Maine, was postmarked Aug. 14, 1957, and bears a 2-cent stamp. It was addressed to the late Town Manager Harry Flood, who served from 1945 to 1963, and was written by a woman who must have been a friend since she only used her first name, Alice. Read more ->

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