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   From: Lloyd@virtualstampclub.com   
      
   Christopher Corbett, author of Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and   
   Lasting Legend of the Pony Express, will speak about the Pony Express   
   during NAPEX 2010, the top Washington, DC-area stamp collecting show of   
   the year.   
      
   The show is being held June 4-6 at Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in   
   McLean, Va. Corbett, who teaches journalism at the University of   
   Maryland-Baltimore County, will speak at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 5. and   
   parking are free.   
      
   This year is the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express, a private   
   company which carried mail and small packages between St. Joseph, Mo.,   
   to Sacramento, Calif. NAPEX 2010 is offering a special pictorial   
   cancellation for each day of the show to commemorate the express mail   
   service, and commemorative covers ― decorated envelopes with related   
   stamps and the pictorial cancellations.   
      
   The Pony Express lasted only 18 months, spurned for a mail contract by   
   the Post Office Department and replaced in speed by the transcontinental   
   telegraph.   
      
   Yet the short-lived express service lives on in popular lore.   
      
   Corbett's Orphans Preferred was just re-released for the 150th   
   anniversary of the Pony Express. Corbett is a former news editor with   
   The Associated Press, and has also written the novel Vacationland. 1994,   
   he has written The Back Page, an award-winning column for Style magazine   
   in Baltimore. He will be available to autograph copies of  Orphans   
   Preferred copies will be for sale after his talk.   
      
   NAPEX 2010 is a World Series of Philately show, one of about 30   
   "national" shows, and features not only a competitive exhibition of   
   multi-frame stamp and cover exhibits, but also single-frame and   
   literature competitions. In addition, NAPEX 2010 will host the annual   
   meetings of three national stamp societies ― American Air Mail Society,   
   the Colombia/Panama Philatelic Study Group, and Society of Australasian   
   Specialists/Oceania.   
      
   The three-day NAPEX 2010 will also include more than 70 dealers, the   
   U.S. and United Nations postal administrations and Nordica, which   
   represents several Scandinavian countries. There is a special hotel rate   
   at the Hilton of $130 a night for NAPEX visitors.   
      
   For more information on NAPEX, www.napex.org or contact show chairman   
   Darrell Ertzberger at mteton@aol.com.   
      
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