2019-01-08 Tue

USPS is going to release a new postage stamp to celebrate the 200th birthday of Alabama. A photo of a sunset scene taken by Alabamian Joe Miller at Cheaha State Park’s Pulpit Rock Trail is represented in the stamp design. It shows the Pulpit Rock with Talladega National Forest in the background. The state name and year of statehood are also mentioned.

The stamp will be officially released on 23rd February in Huntsville at Constitution Hall Park. Alabama’s First Constitutional Convention was organised at this location.

USPS is going to issue several other interesting stamps in 2019. One of them would be based on the theme “Year of the Boar” and it belongs to the Celebrating Lunar New Year series. Other 2019 stamps would be honouring entertainers Gregory Hines and Marvin Gaye; the USS Missouri; poet Walt Whitman; the 50th anniversary of Woodstock; the California Dogface butterfly; Wild and Scenic Rivers etc.

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