℗ and © 1987, 2010 Frank DiGiacomo, and 2016 Sing DiGiacomo.
Photography by Rick Powers, From the left: Ira C. Smith, Frank DiGiacomo and Betsy Powers.

A collection of tone poems, created in 1987, descriptive of places encountered on a motor tour in 1986, primarily of the American South and Southwest with Mr. DiGiacomo’s friends, Ira C. Smith and Julian R. Pace. The photograph by Rick Powers was made on a subsequent trip which included Rick and his wife Betsy Powers. Most Postcards are self explanatory, except perhaps Leadville Memories. Leadville Colorado was the location where, in the 1880s, Horace Tabor, the silver magnate, met and fell in love with his Baby Doe, a very romantic story and relationship, immortalized by Douglas Moore in the opera The Ballad of Baby Doe - a perennial DiGiacomo favorite. As the Tabor fortunes were decimated by the national move to a gold standard, Horace admonished Baby Doe to never sell the Matchless mine, one of his most prized holdings. After his death, Baby Doe actually lived at the mine where she froze to death following a heart attack. Her body was found March 7, 1935.