Mr. Leon Wickersham lived in West Chester, the lovely college town of Chester County in southeast Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Chester,_Pennsylvania
In December of 1939, Leon received a postcard from his friend, Wilbur.
The face of the postcard is a beautiful photograph of Apple Blossoms.
The scene is identified as “Apple Blossom Time in Virginia”.
Published by the Asheville Post Card Company, a prolific publisher of postcards in Asheville, NC, the postcard is in the “linen” style that came to dominate postcard publication in the 1930’s.
Wilbur wrote from Portsmouth, the busy harbor city in southeast Virginia.
The area was a center of ship-building since the Colonial Era, and is now a center for the US Navy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth,_Virginia
The postcard is lovely, although somewhat unseasonable for December.
On the reverse, Wilbur thanks Leon for a recent postcard, and asks for more information about Leon’s trip.
Wilbur has visited the Grand Canyon and promises to send one of the pictures that “turned out good”.
One hopes that Wilbur and Leon remained friends for many years and that they continued to share their travel stories with one another.
