09/15/2026
Wednesday Night Open Mic celebrates the good old days of the post office. Send somebody a snail mail this week and keep your good wishes from prying eyes. Come out and sing on Wednesday.
Correction: This was incorrect as to the delivery of the first overland mail. This correction skips a lot of details. At first mail was carried over land to Sacramento starting in 1851, but it was intermittent and dangerous. Eventually the mail took a second, southern route to Southern California after which mail to San Francisco was carried by steamship. The third way was the Butterfield Overland Route that started in 1857. It began semi-weekly service on September 15, 1858. I apologize for being in a hurry and grabbing something incorrect from a “this day in history” type website without doing further research.