on Dec 25th, 2006Christmas Card Travels Back and Forth for 54 Years!
© Tyler Sipe, Record-Eagle
What a great Christmas story! Two couples have exchanged the same Christmas card for 54 years and running. Artists call it postal art. Every day people call it a tradition of the heart. While it’s true the internet makes communication a thoughtless gesture, the exchange of a good old-fashioned card sure makes for a fine Christmas morning present.
Dick and Hedy Rewalt received a Christmas card from their friends Roy and Betty Stern of New Orleans in 1953. Dick signed the card and sent it back the following Christmas, sparking a back-and-forth tradition that continues today.
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By Tom Carr, Traverse City Record Eagle, December 17, 2006