NICE Offers Postage Stamp Lecture

Henry Lukas, director of education and community education at the Museum of Stamps and Postal History, will present "You Can Learn a Lot From the Corner of an Envelope," the Norton Institute for Continuing Education's fourth free lecture of the 2011 - 2012 academic year, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13 at Wheaton College's Watson Fine Arts Building, Ellison Lecture Hall, Room 102, 26 East Main St., Norton.

Lukas will present a history of the use of stamps and the postal system. Hear how a stamp almost started a South American War and learn about movies that have stamp themes, famous people on stamps, rules about whose picture gets on a stamp, and strange postal stories. Each attendee will take home a free packet of stamps.     

NICE, a non-profit affiliate of the Elderhostel Institute Network and a collaborative effort of Wheaton College and Epoch Assisted Living of Norton, provides non-credit nominally-priced college-level courses and free lectures for over-55 year-olds living primarily in Norton, Attleboro, Mansfield, Sharon, Foxboro, Taunton, Stoughton, Easton, and Canton.      

For complete details of the lectures plus other information, visit www.nicecourse.org or call NICE Registrar Martin Aronson at 781-784-8548.