Love From Kew
Love From Kew Bringing together messages from vintage Kew postcards with new prose reflections, Love from Kew is a one-of-a-kind look at the enduring needs for human connection--with each other as…
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Love From Kew
Bringing together messages from vintage Kew postcards with new prose reflections, Love from Kew is a one-of-a-kind look at the enduring needs for human connection--with each other as much as the natural world.In 2020, the United Kingdom recognized the 150th anniversary of the official introduction of postcards. One could view postcards as the texts or tweets of their day: brief communiques that provide glimpses into the lives of others, with stories that are often as funny or poignant as they are cryptic. At the peak of their popularity in the early twentieth century, more than two million postcards a day were mailed in the UK.
Love from Kew is a valentine to these missives of the past, placing vintage Kew These messages were often sent to family or friends back home from a site of special importance--like, for example, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.