Well, it is never to soon to start planning, especially when pictorial cancellations have to be planned and so on.

2011 will mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and will begin a five year long era of sesquicentennial covers, giving me ideas for local post covers, mailer's postmark anniversaries and so on.

Southwest Missouri is grounds for event covers.  The Battle of Carthage (also known as the Battle of Dry Fork) was listed in the New York Times as the first major land battle of the Civil War. The claim is disputed, but it is actually the first battle where opposing forces marched a considerable distance with the purpose in mind of engaging the enemy.

So I have at least one event cover planned, the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Carthage, on July 5, 2011, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

Time for you to start planning too?