WHAT:

Special dedication ceremony for the Gulf Islands National Seashore Stamp as one of 16 National Parks Forever stamps being issued to celebrate the National Park Service on its 100th anniversary.

WHO:

U. S. Postal Service District Manager David Martin
National Park Service Superintendent Dan Brown
City of Gulf Breeze, FL, City Manager Edwin A. Eddy

WHEN:

Thursday, June 2, at 10: a.m. CST/11:00 a.m. EST

WHERE:

Gulf Islands National Seashore Visitor’s Center
1801 Gulf Breeze Parkway
Gulf Breeze, FL 32563

BACKGROUND:

The Postal Service is dedicating a pane of 16 Forever stamps to celebrate the National Park Service on its 100th anniversary. Visit: http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2016/pr16_024.htm for additional information on the Gulf Islands National Seashore Stamp.

The official first-day-of-issue ceremony is taking place June 2 in New York City at the world’s largest stamp show that only takes place in the United States once a decade, World Stamp Show-NY 2016.  More than 250,000 visitors are expected to attend. Similar to Gulf Islands National Seashore, more than a dozen special dedication ceremonies will take place on June 2 at or near the National Park locations depicted on the stamps. 

The 16 National Park Service sites honored on Forever Stamps include Acadia National Park, Arches National Park, Assateague Island National Seashore, Bandelier National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Everglades National Park, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Grand Canyon National Park,Gulf Islands National Seashore,Haleakalā National Park, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park,Mount Rainier National Park, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Yellowstone National Park.

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