Greetings from Rehoboth Beach: Postcards from the Collection of the Rehoboth Beach Museum
(Rehoboth Beach Historical Society & Museum, 2023)

Saturday, September 30
9:00 a.m.
Rollins Community Center and Lewes History Museum

About the book
Published in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Rehoboth Beach Camp Meeting Association in 1873 (an event recognized as the founding of what became known as “The Nation’s Summer Capital”), this book includes images of black-and-white, sepia-tone, tinted, and full-color postcards produced in or for Rehoboth Beach from 1905 to the present. The authors describe the major periods of development in the postcard industry in the United States, correlated to the history of development and change in the Rehoboth Beach community.

This event is presented in partnership with the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society & Museum.

About the authors
Roland Forster and David McDonald are volunteers at the Rehoboth Beach Museum, where their primary focus has been collections management. In 2021, they cataloged the Purnell Collection of more than 300 Rehoboth Beach postcards, and in 2023, they cataloged a donation of nearly 300 postcards from Judge James W. Horn.

Purchase the book
Please help support local independent bookstores by purchasing this book at Browseabout Books, official bookseller of the History Book Festival. Online sources and digital versions are tempting; however, supporting local brick and mortar shops helps to preserve our vibrant main streets. Drop by Browseabout, order books online, or call the store at 302-226-2665. You also may purchase a copy at biblion in Lewes.

About the Festival
The History Book Festival is the first and only book festival in the United States devoted exclusively to history. With the help of our presenting funding partners — Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices I PenFed Realty — as well as our program and community partners, volunteers, and donors, the 2023 History Book Festival will be full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. Our Keynote Address is presented by Sally Mott Freeman and John K. Freeman, and our Closing Address is presented by Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence.

Special thanks to our program partners for their continuing support: the Lewes Public Library for event promotion and venue; Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival; Lewes Chamber of Commerce for event promotion, and the Cape Gazette and Delmarva Public Media, our media partners.

Additional thanks to our community partners: ACLU Delaware, Beebe Healthcare, CAMP Rehoboth, Historic Lewes Farmers Market, Lewes Historical Society, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach Historical Society & Museum, Seaside Jewish Community, and Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ).