Miss Grace Crawford lived on a rural delivery route outside Lowellville, Ohio.
Lowellville, a village on the Mahoning River, lies at the border of Pennsylvania in northeast Ohio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowellville,_Ohio
In September of 1926, Grace received a postcard from Justine.
Justine mailed the greeting from Youngstown, an industrial city and center of steel-making about 13 miles northwest of Lowellville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown,_Ohio
The face of the postcard is a photograph of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Provincetown, at the western tip of Cape Cod, was the harbor reached by the Pilgrim immigrants in their first voyage to North America.
The name, “Provincetown” was not the first name given to the tip of Cape Cod, and the Pilgrim colony was established at Plymouth, on the mainland..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincetown,_Massachusetts
Commemorating several “firsts” related to the arrival of the English settlers, the monumental tower was erected between 1907 and 1910.
The monument, in the form of an Italian bell tower (campanile), was designed by Boston architect, Willard T. Sears.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Monument
The photograph, probably made several years before the postcard was mailed, was copyrighted by E. D. West.
The postcard was first published by the E. D. West Company of South Yarmouth, Cape Cod.
On the reverse, Justine explains that she has “made attempts, unsuccessfully, at various times today and yesterday, to get in touch with you.”
I assume that Justine was using a telephone.
The important news is that, “I am having club this Sat. night and hope you can come.”
Justine adds that she was “sorry I could not get down Mon. night.”
Although she intended to make the visit, Justine explains that she was “too tired to make the long journey.”
(The name of the club is not noted, which is disappointing. I was looking to find a reference to one of the many women’s clubs and associations that proliferated in the 1920’s.)
One hopes that Grace is not “too tired” to make the long journey to the club meeting, that the meeting was enjoyed by all the members, and that Justine and Grace maintained a correspondence for many years.
