Sister Edith Will Do Better – Riders Mills, New York (1910)
Mrs. Elmer Kipp lived in Riders Mills, a small village in Columbia County of east-central New York. This community, built around mills on the Kinderhook
Mrs. Elmer Kipp lived in Riders Mills, a small village in Columbia County of east-central New York. This community, built around mills on the Kinderhook
Mr. Marsh Palmer lived in Jersey City, the bustling city on the Hudson River – across the water from Manhattan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey In March of 1909,
Mrs. H. S. Whitman lived in Marlborough, a city in Middlesex County of northeast Massachusetts. A manufacturing center in the 1930’s, Marlborough is now the
Mr. Alvin Reed lived in Harper’s Ferry, the historic town at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers in the easternmost part of West
Mrs. David Streeter lived in Cato, a town in north-central New York State -northwest of Syracuse. (Readers of these postcard stories will know that I
Miss Helen Baldwin lived in East Shoreham, a town on the shore of Lake Champlain, in western Vermont. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham,_Vermont In late December of 1920, Helen
Miss Bessie Weaver lived in Juniata County, a picturesque area of wooded Appalachian foothills and farms in central Pennsylvania. In December of 1922, Bessie received
On December 31, 1907, “Edith” mailed a postcard from Philadelphia to Miss C. Edith Yoder at 322 Pine Street in Lancaster, PA. The writer, Edith,
Edith Gets to Lancaster – Circa 1920 I am not sure what joke underlies Edith’s trip to Lancaster, but she alludes to one when she
Tellings stories from the past.