It didn't start out that way, but it looks like I'm posting river front postcards. (The Mount Washington Incline is 100 or so feet from the Monongahela River.) So, about a month ago I read Volume one of Edmund Morris' biography of Theodore Roosevelt. That monstrosity of a building in the far background, the one with the tower and turrets, is the New York state capitol building, which opened when TR was a state assemblyman. I'm more interested in the river boats. Even in this day and age, I see riverboats as a perfectly reasonable way to get around the mid-west. So it takes a couple of days to get from Pittsburgh to St. Louis. I mean, if you're not in a hurry, what difference does it make.
Sent to "Mrs Laura Knight, Ludlow, Vermont." Three postmarks on this one, "TROY N.Y. SEP 21 1 PM 1906," "WATERVLIET N.Y. SEP 21, 1 PM 1906," and a smeared one , all that's visible is the date, "SEP 22 7 AM 1906." Obviously from Ludlow. How Troy and Watervliet can have the same postmark date and time is beyond me.
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