Aunt Carlotta Receives a Postcard from Italy – New Providence, PA (1924)
Mrs. Carlotta Stager lived in New Providence, Pennsylvania, a village in southern Lancaster County, northwest of Quarryville.
In July of 1924, Carlotta received a postcard from her niece, Helen Kelley.
Helen reports, “we have been on the Continent 10 days now”.
The group was now in Rome, “truly the most wonderful place yet”.
The postcard featured an uncolored photograph of the gate of St. Sebastian (which had been built around an older arch known as the Arch of Drusus.)
The famed Appian Way passes through this arch, an opening in the Aurelian Walls of the city.
According to Helen, the sights of Ancient Rome surpassed the delights of Naples and Sorrento which were “lovely”.
One hopes that the travelers to Italy returned safely home and were able to share with Aunt Carlotta more stories of their adventures.
