Given my passion for the post office, it should be no surprise that I love mail boxes as well. I especially love pictures of mail boxes and friends. My first was of artist Theo Tilton next to a giant mail box in Louisiana. Of such moments, collections are born.
Roland Sweet notes, "In the fall of 1986, Theo and I were exploring back roads in Louisiana. We were driving along U.S. 65 between Ferriday, home of Jerry Lee Lewis, and Tallulah when we spotted Ben Burnside's big mailbox in Tensas Parish. I started to snap the picture, then realized I needed some reference to show how big it is. Theo obliged." Laurie Winship at the Windsor Castle mailbox, September 26, 2000. Photo by Lee Baker. Ritsuko Hatano with a classic pre-war mailbox in the countryside of Japan. Shot with a Casio cellphone camera by Sean Winship, May 2004 Annie Riker with a Postes Canada mailbox in Montreal, Quebec, May 30, 2004 "Waitin' for the Man" -- Gregg checks his mail on Roanoke Island, shot with a pinhole camera by Gregg Kemp, April 2004 Zoe Zenowich Heisler next to a Hrvatska Posta mailbox on the island of Hvar, Croatia, August 2004 Robert Blades and the oh-so-debonair Willie in front of Westminster Abbey, London, summer of 2004 Lorraine Woerner-MacGowan, October 11, 2004, in Casalbordino in Abruzzo, the town in which her Grandma Leone was born and lived until she was about 21 Abbie Winship in Quito, Ecuador -- "Ciudad, Interior, Exterior: In the City, within the country and out of the country" -- December, 2004 Lee Baker at The Lizard, the southernmost tip of England, May 2005 Dr. Melissa Conway e la cassetta delle lettere, Assisi, Italy, March 2005 Kihm Winship at the Montisi post office, Tuscany, March 2006 Nick Baker at a "Posta" box in Prague, November 2006 Sean Winship steadies a Thai post box in Bangkok, November 2007 In January 2008, Tim Byrnes takes a well-deserved break from observing the World University Debate Championships at Assumption University in Bangkok. Photo courtesy of Tyrell Haberkorn.
