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In the summer of 1908, Minnie Thorn had gone to Lehi, Utah to "see the sights".
Her sister, Mamie, wrote to her to tell her not to become home sick, and about learning to roller skate. "My, it's a sport!", was Mamie's expression.
Mamie selected an American postcard, printed in a limited color palatte
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Postmark
* Original postmark (Utah) undecipherable
* Receiving Post Office
Lehi, Utah
July 30, 1908
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Address
Miss Minnie Thorn
Lehi
Utah
c/o R. Wells
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Message
7-28-08
Dear Sister,
-Hope that your not home sick yet, ha, ha.
See all the sights and write and tell me all about them.
* Say, I've been learning to roller skate.
My it's a sport.
Love and kisses,
Mamie
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Comments: 52
I appreciate the research about "ha,ha".
Look forward to seeing what you've found, Kate.
Good morning. This is a beautiful pastoral image. On seeing it, my first thought was of Constable, but the Dutch landscapists staked a claim as well.
"My, it's a sport!" sounds so quaint to me, but not unfamiliar... my mother might have used a similar phrase.
Have a nice weekend.
I haven't explored towns in Utah that begin with Cooper...., Dannielle. It might be Cooperstown. I believe it is a Utah postmark, however.
The image does have a nice painterly feel, Doug. Although one with a limited palatte.
We are all eager to learn more about Minnie and Mamie.
Stephanie, you ought to dig out your family genealogy.
You have some potential kinships ( aren't you related to Kate somehow?) and some identification with interesting places to explore.
I also enjoyed the postcard.
I hope you had a great day, and that you rest well tonight.
The Thorn girls have been waiting patiently in the shadows for a few decades, they can wait a few more days.
Dannielle seems to have responded to information that is no longer here -unless she has been recieving "spirit messages" or some kind of genealogical ESP.
I am going to find a painting of Constable to compare to our image -as Doug had suggested earlier.
Also, a Dutch landscape master, maybe Van Ruisdael.
And I thought you were writing a paper on Socialism in Chile ! :-)
What have you done with Dorothy Parker?
Dannielle may be in touch with a hedgehog Spiritualist who communicates with Hedgehogs who have "crossed over".
Glad you enjoyed it, Ron.
It couldn't have been easy being a divorcee and a single parent in Utah.
I become attached to icons as representations of the individuals - and sometimes see alternate icons as "other" people.
Mamie Thorn was 30 in 1920, so she was born about 1890 (that's the year I was born, too!)
That would have made her about 18 years old in 1908, when she was writing to Minnie.
Minnie was 10 in 1900, putting her at the same age as Mamie.
So, the two correspondents are each 18 years old.
But this doesn't make sense if Mamie was married and had a 15 year old son in 1920.
Mamie would have had a child in 1905, when she was 13, and be a young mother when she was learning to roller skate and seeing the sights in Lehi.
Can this be?
Is it possible that the "Sister" greeting is friendly or religious, like "Brother Peter will now stop pestering the genealogist" ?
I was re-visiting the premise that this was Mamie Thorn only to see if the complicated result reflects some faulty assumptions at the beginning.
I am sure that every life (before the advent of computerixed records of every purchase, bank withdrawal, or phone call) has lots of strange turnings and "mysteries".
Someone researching my life would be struck by the abrupt changes in location every two years in my young adulthood.
The researcher might know to follow an inquiry into employment records.
Feel free to borrow as needed.
The cake sounds yummy.
Is this going to be another article for us to drool over?
I, too, am in awe of Kate's reseach!!
I like to have some mental image of the places we discuss.
Kate is the best -she even has to deal with cranky collaborators!
Peter Wimsey, Apr 6, 2008, 1:47pm EDT
I hope your son consents.
He can wear dark glasses in the photos.
Kate C, when she is not looking up obscure people named on my cards, has written extensively about the memorabilia she inherited from "Grandma Alice".
This is a charming picture - and it has an autumnal feel.
I believe the color selection had more to do with the limitation of the color printing presses (this looks like a 3-color process) than with the artist's preferences.
But, they did a fine job with the limitations.