Historian Andy Graff discussed Virginia’s postal history with a local emphasis on Sunday in Gloucester County Library, Main Street Center. Graff showcased examples from his collection of envelopes and postmarks from Gloucester County. Graff has been combining his love of history and postal collecting since the 1980s and is a former board member of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. This program was sponsored through a partnership of the library, the Gloucester 250 Committee, and Gloucester Museum of History. Above, Graff shows the audience some of the envelope covers in his collection. He provided all those in attendance with a binder filled with photocopies of his covers, including the first one he collected, an 1859 “mourning envelope” (framed in black) sent to Sally Tompkins, the Mathews County woman later to gain fame running Robertson Hospital in Richmond during the Civil War and the only woman to hold a commission in the Confederate Army....