Cocoa, FL
April 5, 1951
Still having good weather. The cars are starting northward now. They are travelling in large numbers.
Best of wishes,
From,
The Dunbars
Miss Marion Parker
480 Main St.
So. Groveland, Mass.
Just over a month after the Dunbars sent this postcard to Marion Parker, Hurricane Able would brush the Florida coastline as one of the earliest hurricanes to strike the U.S. Obviously, even modern hurricane tracking cannot predict a storm moving more than a week before landfall, so the Dunbars must be observing the annual migration northward of what we in Florida call the "snowbirds." It might be just me, but I sense an apocalyptic tone to this postcard, as if some horrible disaster had driven the winter residents away from the state in massive numbers.
That disaster is the sweltering summers here.
There are two places of interest for the identity of Marion Parker. The first is a Marion Parker who is the chairman of the Greater Women's Club of Massachusetts Public Affairs, holding a publicity book fair. The second, and more age-appropriate site shows a 1985 Lakeland Ledger obituary for Marion Parker, retired bookkeeper of Groveland, MA, survived by a nephew, Herbert Parker of Clermont, FL. She is listed as a member of the Groveland Congregational Church, until moving to Lakeland in 1983.
Just over a month after the Dunbars sent this postcard to Marion Parker, Hurricane Able would brush the Florida coastline as one of the earliest hurricanes to strike the U.S. Obviously, even modern hurricane tracking cannot predict a storm moving more than a week before landfall, so the Dunbars must be observing the annual migration northward of what we in Florida call the "snowbirds." It might be just me, but I sense an apocalyptic tone to this postcard, as if some horrible disaster had driven the winter residents away from the state in massive numbers.
That disaster is the sweltering summers here.
There are two places of interest for the identity of Marion Parker. The first is a Marion Parker who is the chairman of the Greater Women's Club of Massachusetts Public Affairs, holding a publicity book fair. The second, and more age-appropriate site shows a 1985 Lakeland Ledger obituary for Marion Parker, retired bookkeeper of Groveland, MA, survived by a nephew, Herbert Parker of Clermont, FL. She is listed as a member of the Groveland Congregational Church, until moving to Lakeland in 1983.
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