The Watchful Chaperone – Greenwood, West Virginia (1915)

Miss Audie Beninger lived in Greenwood, West Virginia.

Alas, there are three unincorporated communities by that name in West Virginia.

There is also an abandoned town of Greenwood, but the place disappeared from maps by 1912.

Fortunately, only one Greenwood seems to have had a Post Office in 1915 – the community in north central West Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Doddridge_County,_West_Virginia

In April of 1915, Audie received a postcard from an unnamed friend who mailed the greeting from a railroad station on the Grafton line in south-east Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton,_Virginia

The face of the postcard bears an amusing drawing of an amorous couple who have discarded a pile of outer garments for their embrace.

Above the stone bench on which the couple is entwined, a little dog keeps watch from a window.

It is difficult to tell if the faithful companion is puzzled or attentive to prospective danger.

The postcard, “Made in Germany”, lacks a recognizable symbol of the publisher.

It is unfortunate that we do not know anything about the relationship between Audie and her correspondent.

The charming drawing might reflect a happy memory or a hope for the future.

In any event, one hopes that Audie was delighted by the postcard and that she enjoyed the Spring of 1915.

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