Miss E. Fisher lived in Lancaster, the historic city in southeast Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania
Her home at 336 East Frederick Street is a charming, brick townhouse that was built in 1890.
https://www.trulia.com/home/336-e-frederick-st-lancaster-pa-17602-9735653
In March of 1938. Miss Fisher received a postcard from Emily and Charlie.
The postcard was mailed from Brooklyn, the most-populous borough of New York City and a center of industry and commerce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn
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The face of the postcard is a drawing of the “Martyr’s Monument, Fort Green Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.”
At this site, tiers of steps lead to a high platform on which a tall column (in the antique, “Doric” style) stretches skyward.
An ornamental funeral urn and brazier crowns the column.
The monument stands over an enormous vault containing the remains of more than 11,500 Continental soldiers along with civilian resisters, non-combatants, and patriots who were arrested and held on British prison ships in New York harbor during the British occupation of the city in the American Revolution.
The prison ships were brutish, deadly, and cruel – disease, deprivation, starvation, and thirst, destroyed far more lives than the wounds of war.
Fort Greene is on high ground that was important to the defense of New York; it was surrendered after the Battle of Brooklyn.
After the War of 1812, Fort Greene was no longer manned, and the area eventually became a NYC Park.
In 1895, Stanford White was commissioned to design a memorial to commemorate the American dead now interred there.
President William Howard Taft made the principal address at the dedication in 1908.
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park/monuments/1222
The postcard was published by the Manhattan Post Card Publishing Company.
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On the reverse, the travelers report, “this is a nice place where we are.”
The message does not provide any clues about the purpose of the trip or about an expected return.
It continues, “We had a fine trip, but not enough time for anything in particular.”
Miss Fisher preserved the postcard in fine condition throughout her life.
One hopes that Emily and Charlie were satisfied with their journey and that they exchanged many more postcards Miss Fisher.
