Mr. and Mrs. Maurice O’Connell lived in Schroon Lake, a village (within the town of Schroon) named for a large lake in northeastern New York State.
This area of the Lake and the village is now within the Adirondack State Park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroon,_New_York
Some time ago, we saw a postcard story with a picture of a couple canoeing on Schroon Lake:
“Annie Writes from the Lake” (1928)
In March of 1909, the O’Connell’s received a postcard from their daughter, Minnie.
Minnie mailed the postcard from Corinth, a town in Saratoga County of east-central New York.
Corinth, once a center of the lumber industry, developed around the Hadley Falls -where the Hudson River passes through the Palmertown Range of the Adirondacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth,_New_York
Schroon Lake is about 49 miles north of Corinth.
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The face of the postcard is a banner announcing, “To My Beloved PARENTS”.
The initial words are in colorful letters of red and blue, but the last word is composed of roses and rosebuds arranged to form the word, “parents”.
A large spray of flowers, lilies-of-the-valley and violets, adorn the page, along with a small gold harp.
The flowers are embossed, which makes the writing on the reverse a bit less readable.
There is no publishers mark, but I believe the postcard was printed in the United States.
It resembles another postcard, “To My Dear MOTHER” that we have seen recently.
On the reverse, Minnie displays the habits of a good correspondent as she notes her location and the date.
Addressing her parents as “Dear Mother and Father”, Minnie begins by asking, “How are you both this nice Spring weather?
Minnie explains that “I meant to write you a letter but while Nell was here we spent all our time talking.”
Nell is gone now, and Minnie misses her very much.
She hopes her parents are both well.
“At Easter”, Minnie suggests that she “may go up home for a week if the roads are not too bad”.
Minnie reports, “We are both well and fat.”
Last night, Minnie “had a postcard from Peggy – She is OK.”
“Before long”, Minnie “will write you a letter”.
In the meantime, she sends “Love and kisses to you both.”
As a postscript, Minnie adds, “Levi sends love”.
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Minnie’s parents seem to have treasured the postcard; it was well-preserved despite some incomplete coloration.
(There is one rosebud that is not colored; all the rest I re-painted with a digital program.)
One hopes that the weather was fine at Easter, that the roads were passable, and that Minnie was able to visit her parents.
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