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A Temple of Victory for Lulu – Newville, PA (1935)

June 30, 2026 No Comments

Miss Lulu Myers lived outside Newville, a borough along Big Spring Creek in Cumberland County of south-central Pennsylvania. Eleven miles west of Carlisle, Newville was

“Mother is in Greece” -Athens (1925)

July 20, 2025 No Comments

Not long ago we met E. Gardner Hays who was a student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. In that postcard story, Gardner had

A View of the Acropolis – Athens, Greece (1910)

September 12, 2023 No Comments

Mr. George Wood lived in DeLand, the city created by an enterprising entrepreneur from undeveloped land north of Orlando and west of Daytona Beach, Florida.