Solar Eclipse Postmark

By: Gregory Scolieri (ACE 579)

The Sterling Nature Center located in Cayuga County, New York celebrated the April 8, 2024 Solar Eclipse with a Pictorial Postmark. I asked Christine Engel of the Sterling Nature Center about the postmark and she was kind enough to provide me with some insight about the special postmark. Christine Engel, the Volunteer Coordinator of the Sterling Nature Center, had this to say:

“We had a contest for the Logo Design for the Total Eclipse event we held at the center. The winner's name was Cindy O'Dell, and this is her design. We were contacted by a wonderful lady named Holly Sharpe. She worked for USPS and told us it would make a tremendous pictorial postmark. My boss, the center's director, Jim D’Angelo, and a gentleman named Jeff Wallace worked with her to make it happen. Holly came on the day of the Eclipse and hand-stamped 350 postmarks that day. It was an excellent way to celebrate a unique event like the eclipse.”