Greetings from Florida (with a Pelican limerick!)

A Gorgeous Bird is the Pelican,

Whose Beak can Hold More than his Belican,

He can put in his Beak, Food enough for a Week,

But I’ll be d----d if I can see how the Helican.

Mr. and Mrs. Pelican

There are those who like the Northland,

            With its cold and all its sleet,

Winter winds blowing through you

            As you hurry down the street.

Here we stroll among the roses,

            In the sun that shines so warm,

Eating fruit and smelling flowers,

            With our coats upon our arm.

West Palm Beach, Fla March 7, 1930

Dear Harry:-

While Fern is doing fine, it will be at least another month before she can be moved, wish you were here.  I am writing this sitting on the pier with almost 500 Broad bill within 10 feet of me. 

Jim

H. L. Post

Farmingdale, N.Y.


Farmingdale is a small village on Oyster Bay of about 8,000 people.  It was carved out of the Bethpage purchase made by Thomas Powell in 1685 from the local Marsapeque, Matinecoc, and Sacatogue tribes.  The Post family was a prominent family in all of Long Island, most of whom descended from a Captain John Post in the late 1600's.  An H.L. Post is mentioned in the 1913 Journal of the New York State College of Forestry as owning a "wood-using" business in Farmingdale.  The business at 393 Main Street was owned by a Gladys K. Post at least until 1985, which is the last record available from the Nassau County Property Assessors Office.  


An email on an alumni website for Far Rockaway High School exists for Gladys, so I will send her a link to this post and update later.