Used my last sheet of CRANE PAPER 'Old Money' Cardstock today :(

A SAD SAD MOMENT: Why oh why did Crane Paper Company discontinue making their exquisite 'Old Money' paper & cardstock, especially since they are the only paper company in the USA licensed to do it?

"Contains Recycled United States Currency" the package declared.

And the 24# paper had a gorgeous  'Old Money' watermark 
Everyone I know who knew this paper existed, really appreciated it. But hardly anybody knew about it. Crane discontinued it. When I registered my stunned disbelief, Crane responded apologetically and commented that I seemed to be the only person in the country who cared or noticed.


Where is Stephen Crane when we need him in our Day & Age to "make a Statement";
CRANE PAPER COMPANY  HISTORY (from Crane website)

Give Us Liberty

"More than 200 years ago, Stephen Crane decided to make a statement. And it wasn’t with his fashion forward breeches or well-groomed mutton chops. It was, rather, with the name of a paper mill he opened in 1770. He called it the Liberty Paper Mill and, for purveyors of our American heritage, was named so just two years after the British occupied Boston – and just five miles away. A tres bold move, if we do say so ourselves.

Always the extrovert, Stephen, along with friends, family and customers, were Revolution tastemakers, expressing their fiery patriotism whenever the opportunity presented itself (a little event called the Boston Tea Party, if you will).

From Patriotic newspapers to Colonial Currency, Stephen’s 100 percent cotton paper was material of choice for all the Boston activist elite, including one Paul Revere, whose engraved banknotes on Crane paper helped finance the Revolution. He would also pasture his horses at the Liberty Paper Mill – just in case he needed to make a midnight ride (wink, wink). " 

http://www.crane.com/about-us/crane-company?RPL

IMAGE from: http://currencycommonsvt.org/2010/08/the-colonial-money-revolution/

Santa Cruz Lighthouse Bank Community Page

Santa Cruz Lighthouse Bank Community Page

A Bank, is a Bank, is a Bank?

Not anymore, so choose wisely.

Richard G. Hofstetter, Lighthouse Bank President & CEO, is the featured guest author of this recent issue of Burroughs Financial Report. He discusses points to consider when selecting a new bank or evaluating your current provider. Click here to read the article.

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Richard was the first person at Lighthouse Bank I contacted. I wrote to him concerning banks and banking. He didn't know who I was and he wrote a very considered note back, which I greatly appreciated. That was a couple years back. Now with have been banking with Lighthouse for that long and I have the funny feeling that my childhood dream is finally being fulfilled;

I don't know how the heck I even saw this TV commercial, since I grew up in a house without TV but maybe that had something to do with why it left such an impression on me; a TV commercial for a bank who cares. It really got inside me. They made it emotionally like those classic Hovis bread ads (UK from the 70s)..

.. can't find the bank one from back then but they had the bank manager heading down from his house to his bank, greeting everyone as he went, knowing everyone... Cheesy, maybe but I like it!

Over the years I have banked with every small bank that rose in my vicinity (in both UK & US) and it is always worth its weight in gold. In the UK, The People's Bank in East London (cannot find now?) and Ecology Building Society. In Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Community Credit Union (SCCCU started off with deposits in a biscuit tin and now lead the way as best brightest greenest credit unions in the country), Bay Federal (awesome connection with bank manager in River Street branch this past summer as Maggi & I set up the River Prayer Shawl venture), Santa Cruz County Bank (Only The Brave kilts!!), & Lighthouse Bank (1000 Hummingbirds)... Yes, between all the non-profit and micropreneurial ventures, we've been in them all!

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