Mrs. Charles Smith lived in Wallkill, a hamlet on the Wallkill River in Orange County of southeast New York State. (Not long ago, we looked at other New York place names that ended in “kill” – the Dutch word for stream or river.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallkill,_Orange_County,_New_York  In July of 1909, Mrs. Smith received a postcard from S. … Continue reading “Paddle My Own Canoe” – Wallkill, New York (1909)