Atchison's Rock'n Roll Hall of Famer
Jesse Stone
Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 2011
Visit "Shake, Rattle & Roll Station" for your special postal cancellation.
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - special USPS Pictorical Cancellation available in the Museum - 200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot - special Jesse Stone Cache (shown above) including choice of Jazz or Kansas stamps available for a $5.00 donation to the Atchison County Historical Society. Cache proceeds will fund updates to the Jesse Stone exhibit in the museum coming spring 2012.
Note: the special Pictorial Cancellation is free to anyone with any letter or postcard with proper postage - the cache will Jesse Stone's image is not required to get the special cancellation.
5:30-7 p.m. Museum open house - refreshments - musical entertainment by Doug Williams (playing Shake, Rattle and Roll and more) and preview of new artifacts to be added to the Jesse Stone exhibit - remaining precancelled caches will be available through the evening as well.
Read the full story below.
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Atchison County's Rock'n Roll Hall of Famer's
110th Birthday to be Celebrated Nov. 16th
Special Post Office Cancellation & Cache to be available - open house, music and more
To mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Jesse Stone, Atchison County's only citizen in the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame, a special Post Office Pictorial Cancellation will be available, new additions to the Jesse Stone exhibit will be premiered along with a special evening museum open house and entertainment.
To celebrate Jesse Stone's induction into the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame last year, Nov. 16 will be Jesse Stone Day in Atchison County with events throughout the day in the Atchison County Historical Society Museum, in the Santa Fe Depot in Atchison. The Historical Society will host a special Post Office Pictorial Cancellation at the "Shake, Rattle and Roll Station" in the Museum. The Pictorial Cancellation is free to anyone with a letter and proper postage, the Historical Society will have available a special Jesse Stone cache (an envelope printed special for the event) with Stone's photo and lyrics to Shake, Rattle and Roll, the iconic song he wrote that is considered by some to be the first Rock and Roll song or at least was the first million selling song of the Rock era. The limited edition cache will be available for a donation of $5 to the Historical Society and will include your choice of current Post Office stamps; Jazz or Kansas stamps.
"To mark the 110th anniversary of his birth, we are hosting a special day to honor Jesse Stone and his contributions to music," said Chris Taylor, executive director of the Atchison County Historical Society. "We will have the Pictorical Cancellation going on during the day and starting at 5:30 we will have a special museum open house to introduce new items in his exhibit, with a short program about him and musical entertainment supplied on the piano by Doug Williams."
The Postal Cancellation will begin in the museum at 10 a.m. and run through 5 p.m., the museum open house will run from 5:30-7 p.m. with precancelled Jesse Stone cache's available for those who could not come during the regular Post Office hours in the museum.
Born in Atchison Nov. 16, 1901 Stone began his musical career in Atchison County - working in his family's minstrel show act, later forming his first band as a student at the Ingalls High School (today's Atchison Middle School) and playing his "first paying gig" at the Atchison County Fair. Stone formed his first band, the Blues Serenaders, with friends and classmates. The group played in Atchison, St. Joseph and Kansas City and recorded two songs on the Okeh label, "Starvation Blues" and "Boot to Boot" - what is today one of the rarest and most sought after recordings of the early Jazz and Blues era. This recording is one of the new additions to the exhibit that will be premiered Nov. 16th.
Jesse Stone wrote more than 300 songs in the Rock era, recording, arranging and working with many performers in early rock music as one of the founders of Atlantic Records. His contemporaries credit Stone with doing more than any other person to develop the sound that we still know today as Rock'n Roll.
Stone is enshrined in the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the R&B Hall of Fame and the Kansas Music Hall of Fame.
For more details on activies and the program on Wed. Nov. 16th, 2011 in the Atchison County Historical Society Museum, Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. 10th Street, Atchison, Kansas - call or email the museum or visit the Museum website: 913-367-6238 - GoWest@atchisonhistory.org - www.atchisonhistory.org
Want to know more about United States Post Office Pictorial Cancellations
http://stamps.about.com/od/historyofphilately/qt/Celebrate-With-A-Usps-Pictorial-Postmark.htm
http://www.linns.com/howto/refresher/postmarks_20020923/refreshercourse.aspx
View the USPS Bulletin 11/3/2011 including this Atchison County special cancellation - see page 72
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