Seal's Motel Size:36x24 where pinstripes and ghosts share

where pinstripes and ghosts share the same dugout

issued in the centennial year when the Republic was busy reconciling itself to its quarrelsome founders

The portrait carries the strange double weight of a First Lady at her zenith and a widow not yet aware she is one

that midsummer pageant at Comiskey where the brightest talent in Black baseball gathered before crowds the white press could no longer ignore

just thirty-one days after that interminable inaugural address in the cold

Seal's Motel Size:36x24 where pinstripes and ghosts shareSeal's Motel arrives in roadside neon and clean swept courts a tidy row of cabins beneath Washington firs, station wagons nosed to numbered doors, and a vacancy sign glowing against evergreen dusk. This was the open road dream of the Pacific Northwest, where weary motorists found rest off the highway, preserved in the chrome bright linen postcards of the touring era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden