100th Received, Italy!!!

Wow, how exciting, we have now received 100 postcards!

This postcard came to us from Linda.  This view is of Napli, a city not far from Mt. Vesuvio and the lost city of Pompei!  WOW!

Italy Arrived

Hurray! US-1053216 was received!

The postcard US-1053216 to Yorrick in Italy has arrived! It reached its destination in 15 days after traveling 8,810 km!

Yorrick wrote you a message:

"Thanks very much for thwe card with those extraordinary statues, which I have been reading and thinking about. I supposae all open air, publioc statuary transforms the place it is in to some extent, but not so clearly as these (so perhaps they revealsomething about statuary itself, at aby rate to the common viewert), or, if what I read about them freprebnting the dead is true, in quite this way. I would guess thatb they are intended to evoke a Native American belief. Am I right ?
Thanks so much for getting me to think, anyway,
XXX David"

David,
These statues are called, "The Joy of Running Together."  They depict the annual "Bloomsday" run that is held the first Sunday in May.  Each year approximately 50,000 people run a 12k race through our downtown and surrounding areas.  http://www.bloomsdayrun.org/BloomsdayHistory.htm.

23rd and 24th Out, Italy and Poland

Our 23rd card is going out today, and it is to Cingoli, Italy.  Cingoli is the birthplace of Pope Pius VIII.  The city is located at the site of the ancient Cigulum, founded and fortified buy Julius Caesar's lieutenant Titus Labienus in 63 BC, and probably the site of an even older village!  WOW!

The 24th card is going to Koscion, Poland.  Koscion is on the Obra river canal in west central Poland.  I couldn't find very much information about Koscion, but I did find a picture of a miniature statue of the leaning tower of Pisa.