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Postcards From The EdgeYale Coach Collects Vintage Club Postcards From A Bygone EraBy John Steinbreder • March 2, 2021HeaderSome people baked sourdough during the pandemic. Others took time to learn a new language or take up a musical instrument.ExcerptColin Sheehan, the 45-year-old head coach of the men’s golf team at Yale University and a co-founder of the Outpost Club, used the lockdown to expand a collection of vintage clubhouse postcards.“It started before COVID, with my searching eBay for images of single-story clubhouses with wrap-around porches to use as possible examples for a club in Illinois looking to erect a new one,” Sheehan explained. “Buildings that were constructed pre-World War II, before air-conditioning and when porches and other covered outside spaces were critical components of the design. Many of the cards were watercolors or hand-colored photographs and true pieces of art with an old-world look and feel. So were the buildings they depicted. It all reminded me that that era was as much a Golden Age for clubhouses as it was for golf courses.”Sheehan downloaded the postcards he liked most and began putting together a slideshow, cropping some images and enhancing the color on others.“I had just more than 100 postcards by the time we first had to quarantine in early March,” said Sheehan, who graduated from Yale in 1997 with a B.A. in history and political science and now lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife Amy (class of ’98) and their three daughters – Lucy, Annabel and Caroline. “But then COVID turned the world upside down and working on that collection became something of an antidepressant for me." CLICK HERE TO READ THIS UNLOCKED STORY AT GGP+
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