Talk:Barefoot mailman

No mention of the annual Boy Scouts Barefoot Mailman hike?

Also, the third link, to the Sun Sentinel article, fails. CodeCarpenter (talk) 19:29, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

What does a Boy Scout hike have to do with this article? Seriously, how does mention of a Boy Scout hike add to this article? -- Donald Albury 00:29, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

South Florida's Boy Scout Council coordinates an annual Historical Hike from Pompano Beach to South Beach (32 miles) to conmemorate the Barefoot Mailman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.196.53.212 (talk) 16:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Brinton book

I have problems with the book, A Guide-Book of Florida and the South for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants, by Brinton. The copyright date is 1869, but the description of the mail route from Jupiter to Miami is anachronistic for that date. There was a Fort Jupiter post office, 1855-56, and then a Jupiter post office, briefly in 1884, and then from 1887 on.[1] Coconut Grove got its first post office in 1875, and Lemon City (as Motto) in 1889.[2] I can't find a date for the first post office in Miami, but I'm fairly sure that it was established later that the Coconut Grove post office. It is highly unlikely that there was mail service between Jupiter and Miami in 1869. The Star route known as the "barefoot route" did start from Jupiter in 1885-1887, but was shortened to start from Palm Beach in 1887. I suspect that the Guide-Book was periodically updated, without changing the copyright date (the author, in the Introduction, requests readers to submit corrections and updates). However, all the sites (that don't require registration) that have the text of the book available have the same version. -- Donald Albury 15:44, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Possible image?

The Smithsonian has a GSA-owned (commissioned?) mural of one of the barefoot mailmen. Might be worth considering getting on Commons, but I don't have time at the moment to do a thorough investigation of the copyright situation. LuisVilla (talk) 02:27, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

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