[Janet MacD]

The first class for this fall’s session at the Kingston Seniors Association was on Monday. Jim Gould led the group through a thorough and very interesting presentation on precancels. He brought album pages to illustrate his talk and gave everyone a multi page coloured handout to take home. He explained how this is now the focus of his collecting life. One objective of this series is to demonstrate there is no “right way” to collect. How and what we collect is an individual choice, and collecting styles span a spectrum. Jim provided a superb example of a highly specialized collector!

One of the attendees said she has registered for Stamps and Their Stories every time it was offered, as well as the Collecting History series that Hugh and I offered when KSC was taking a break last winter. She was devastated when she was told the program wouldn’t run because there were not enough registered participants - twice - and was very happy to be sitting at the table on Monday.

I really identified with the participant who said she hoards stamps and has to get them under control!