In yesterday’s Stamford Advocate there was an article entitled Has stamp collecting been licked? Fewer young people take up the hobby by By James Lomuscio. The article describes a club auction at the Ye Olde King’s Highway stamp club, and the lack of participants. Within the article you hear the same old arguments as to why there are so few young people taking up the hobby. I have to wonder, has anybody really verified that there is such a lack of interest? Or is it just a convenient excuse to let the hobby die? I first got involved in stamp collecting because one of my teachers formed a Ben Franklin stamp club at my elementary school. Today, you don’t hear about those kinds of activities going on at school. Is the lack of interest in forming such groups on the part of the children or the adults? I think that before we start blaming everything under the sun for children’s lack of interest in stamps, perhaps we should be taking a close look at ourselves and ensuring that lack of interest is real and not just a consequence of the hobby not reaching out to children.
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