The 1960s: Escapism, Pre-Internet Style

SCARCELY a day goes by at our New Mexico house without the mailman’s bringing a letter from some strange corner of the globe, plastered with exotic stamps and wadded thick with air mail stationery.

In the past few months we have received letters from the British Virgin lslands, England, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Bermuda, Spain, Mexico, and the little British Caribbean island colony called Dominica. They descend on our mailbox like bright-plumaged birds,
a philatelist’s dream of inf...