As I’ve embarked on planning an expedition to Baffin Island to see the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and I’ve begun my local research on how that ice sheet shaped Kelleys Island and the Great Lakes Region, I’ve drawn on a historic communication tool for expeditions in the past: hand-written mail. I’ve looked at letters, but I’ve also looked at postcards, QSL cards, and cachet envelopes. In this post I’ll write a little about how some of these have influenced my communication strategy, and why. (nb: later posts that relate to postal and philatelic interests will be categorized as “mail & stamps”)