This postcard was sent as a Thanksgiving greeting, but the most interesting aspect is the news about Grandma.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wayman lived in Schenevus, a hamlet within the town of Maryland in Otsego County of south-central New York.
(The community of Schenevus has an historic carousel and pavilion erected in 1908.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenevus,_New_York
In November of 1927, the Waymans received a Thanksgiving postcard from Mildred.
Mildred mailed the postcard from another town in New York State – I believe it is the unincorporated hamlet of Fly Creek.
This Otsego County hamlet was once connected to Oneonta and Mohawk by the Southern New York Railroad.
Today, Fly Creek has an historic district that contains several listed buildings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Creek,_New_York
Schenevus is 19 miles northwest of Fly Creek.
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The face of the postcard bears a simple drawing of a corn shock and a pumpkin beneath a yellow sun or full moon.
A tidy red house (or barn) is visible in the distance.
These spare, uncluttered designs were typical of US postcards in the 1920’s.
A few lines of printed script express a kind thought:
“A harvest of good wishes for your Thanksgiving”.
I do not recognize any identifiable marks of a publisher, but the postcard was printed in the Unite States.
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On the reverse, Mildred does not write a greeting.
She begins, “Best Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving”.
Then, we learn, “Grandma has her hair bobbed”.
A few years earlier, this might have been shocking.
Mildred is not fazed; she comments, “I think she looks better”.
The message closes with Mildred’s Love to all”.
One hopes that the Waymans were amused by Grandma’s decision, that Grandma was pleased by the new cut, and that all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration.
NOTE:
I found Harry Wayman and his wife, Agnes Mary Ives, in Schenevus.
The couple was married in Otsego County in 1916, and they had two daughters.
Alas, I cannot find “Mildred”.
