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Alma is heading out to Hawaii. In a car.
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Sun. 4:30 P.M. on the Penn. Turnpike approaching Harrisburg. We left S.H. yesterday at 1:45, after much of a scramble. Fredda jitneyed for us. I posted the drawings for the grammatids Friday and Fredda took the manuscript to the P.O. Saturday - $7.00 for all of it. We expected L. + G. at 11:30 but weren't ready until 12:30 and they didn't come until 1:10 and then we packed. We are tight packed - suit cases all sorts of bags and boxes, food including the black walnut cakes and fruit cakes, apples, Christmas candy, coats, sweaters, blankets et al. We made 250 miles yesterday and we have to do at least that every day to make our schedule. I am to stop in Centralia - Wed.? I don't know when we are due in Tucson, but write to me there by the 6th or 7th of June. I got your letter yesterday A.M. - thanks. A.
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Sun. 4:30 P.M. on the Penn. Turnpike approaching Harrisburg.
The postcard is postmarked December 30, which was a Tuesday, so Alma was writing this on December 28. The postmark location is Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, which is 8 miles west of Harrisburg, so I'm surprised that the postmark is for two days after the postcard was written, but maybe they were staying with friends and Alma asked the friends to mail the postcard and they didn't get around to it until Tuesday.
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We left S.H. yesterday at 1:45, after much of a scramble. Fredda jitneyed for us.
"We" must be Alma, Clara Jones, and Lenette Atkinson and her husband Geoffrey Atkinson.
S.H. is South Hadley, of course, and of course Fredda is Fredda Reed, for whom there is a Non-Family page on this website. And a jitney is an unlicensed taxicab.
3.
I posted the drawings for the grammatids Friday and Fredda took the manuscript to the P.O. Saturday
Alma mentioned the grammatid paper in her Christmas letter to Eva:
1958-12-25 LETTER FROM ALMA TO EVA
I have been finishing the Grammatid paper today
And I can't figure out from either the letter or the postcard what the correct spelling of grammatid is. Google tries to help by suggesting I mean grammatical.
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food including the black walnut cakes and fruit cakes
The black walnut cakes and the Claxton fruit cakes would have been Christmas presents from Eva.
5.
We made 250 miles yesterday and we have to do at least that every day to make our schedule.
I believe that the wagon trains going west in from Missouri to California in the 1800s had to do 10 miles per day in order to get to the end of the trail before winter. And it sounds as though this car was packed as tight as a Conestoga wagon.
Sun. 4:30 P.M. on the Penn. Turnpike approaching Harrisburg.
The postcard is postmarked December 30, which was a Tuesday, so Alma was writing this on December 28. The postmark location is Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, which is 8 miles west of Harrisburg, so I'm surprised that the postmark is for two days after the postcard was written, but maybe they were staying with friends and Alma asked the friends to mail the postcard and they didn't get around to it until Tuesday.
2.
We left S.H. yesterday at 1:45, after much of a scramble. Fredda jitneyed for us.
"We" must be Alma, Clara Jones, and Lenette Atkinson and her husband Geoffrey Atkinson.
S.H. is South Hadley, of course, and of course Fredda is Fredda Reed, for whom there is a Non-Family page on this website. And a jitney is an unlicensed taxicab.
3.
I posted the drawings for the grammatids Friday and Fredda took the manuscript to the P.O. Saturday
Alma mentioned the grammatid paper in her Christmas letter to Eva:
1958-12-25 LETTER FROM ALMA TO EVA
I have been finishing the Grammatid paper today
And I can't figure out from either the letter or the postcard what the correct spelling of grammatid is. Google tries to help by suggesting I mean grammatical.
4.
food including the black walnut cakes and fruit cakes
The black walnut cakes and the Claxton fruit cakes would have been Christmas presents from Eva.
5.
We made 250 miles yesterday and we have to do at least that every day to make our schedule.
I believe that the wagon trains going west in from Missouri to California in the 1800s had to do 10 miles per day in order to get to the end of the trail before winter. And it sounds as though this car was packed as tight as a Conestoga wagon.
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