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“Meet Me at the Thermometer” – “The Century of Progress” (1934)

October 29, 2026 No Comments

Miss Camella Greetham lived in Bethlehem, the city on the Lehigh River about 48 miles north of Philadelphia (and 72 miles west of New York

“Winona Writes to Her Sister” – Center Ossipee, New Hampshire (1934)

July 27, 2026 No Comments

Mrs. Jesse Wilkinson lived in Center Ossipee, a census-designated place within the town of Ossipee in Carroll County of east-central New Hampshire. The community is

Aunt Gertie Is Back at Home – Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1934)

September 8, 2022 No Comments

Aunt Gertie lived in Pittsfield, the city in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. By 1934, this agricultural area of streams and mills (once a