postmarked November 30, 1905, Winter Park, Fla
Dear I.,
How are you this Thanksgiving Day?
PAC
Miss Ida Hawkins
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
A lovely photograph of how Lake Lucerne appeared over a hundred years ago. You can see the Historic Inn on the other side of the lake, unobstructed by the Spessard L. Holland East-West Expressway.
East Greenwich, Rhode Island is a town of about 13,000 people today. It was a waterfront town with a prominent mill built by one of the early developers of steam mill technology, Charles Tillinghast James. It turns out that Ida Hawkins was his niece.
According to her gravestone in Glenwood Cemetery, Miss Ida Hawkins was born in 1873. She attended the East Greenwich Academy, a prominent boarding school, graduating in 1893, then went on to Brown University complete her Bachelor's in education at in 1897. She was 32 when she received this card, which would be well after she started her career in teaching at an undetermined high school and before she was married to Alexander Morrison. After a long life of teaching, she passed away in 1944 at the age of 71.
Let's hope she was well on this Thanksgiving Day, whoever P.A.C. was.
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