Review of the May/June 1997 Yule Log

Feature Articles

• Georges de La Tour and His World - George W. Rohrer describes some of the works of French artist Georges de La Tour. An exhibition of this master's works was shown at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in late 1996. Several of the artist's paintings have a Christmas theme and are illustrated on stamps.

• Christmas Customs Around the World - Glenn Vasbinder visits Mexico, land of posadas and describes some of their Christmas traditions.

• Let's All Meet At VAPEX - November 7-9, 1997 Editor June Berwald announces plans for a CPC get together at VAPEX to be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia. See VAPEX Get Together for more details.

• Rundbrief No. 79 - Motivgruppe Weihnacten e.V. - overview by Simine Short, of the November 1996 issue of the "Motivgruppe Weihnacten", collectors of Christmas philatelic material. For more information about this group, see Christmas Resources.

• The First Christmas Card and the Post - Kenneth Rowe tells the history of the first commercially published Christmas card.

• Christmas Philatelic Club Auction - Mary Turner and Richard Sartor describe 123 lots Christmas philatelic material, including stamps, souvenir sheets, booklets, FDCs, CPC 25th Anniversary covers, Maxi cards, Christkindls, postal stationery, seals, cancellations and some miscellaneous Christmas collectibles.

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The Yule Log is edited by Jon Mills of Ottawa, Ontario. Christine Sanders of Englewood, Florida is the club's current president.

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