Master Leslie Caton was growing up in Rochester, the prosperous manufacturing center on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York State.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York
In December of 1908, Leslie received a beautiful Christmas postcard from his Grandma.
Grandma mailed the postcard from a railroad station somewhere near Syracuse, New York – about 85 miles east of Rochester.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York
The face of the postcard shows parishioners following a tree-lined path to a lighted church.
All the trees are weighted with snow, which also covers the path.
Above the lighted windows of the church, the stars gleam in the sky.
A small medallion encloses an image of the organist, laboring by candlelight.
The well-made postcard was published by the renowned English firm of Raphael Tuck & Sons; the image was printed in Saxony.
On the reverse, Grandma inscribes only her title as “Grandma”.
The boy, Leslie, preserved the postcard throughout his life.
One hopes that he ad many happy memories of Christmas with his grandma.
