Christmas inspiration: Idea revives small town

By Jason Williams,
Williams is a writer, researcher and founder of the Taxpayers Association of Oregon

In the 1980s the small town of Angelica, New York fell on hard times.  After closing the town High School, next up was closing the town post office.  Pat Kaake invented an idea to market the post office to tourists as a place to get your mail stamped during the holidays with a special Angel ink stamp (above) like other famously named towns do (Starlight, Pennsylvania. Joy, Illinois. Wiseman, Arkansas).  Over 10,000 people come for the stamp yearly which saved the post office from closing.