To Dorothy from Lillian: A Story (Part Two)

Did Dorothy live in Louisville, KY, 

or is this only where the church was?

Did she spend the summer of 1927 at the

Crab Orchard Springs Hotel

in Crab Orchard, KY,

where she received this letter?

Dorothy was a model in a style show at the Elks Auxiliary

February 9th.

Was this the following year?...

How did the little boy in the toy plane relate to these gals?

It is surely an adorable photo...

The fold-out caption in the photo below on the left

states: "And those button pictures --why,

Martha Gunterman and everyone else 

were wearing them".

Have you ever seen those photo buttons in antique stores?

Did photographers come around and take the photos

for them?...

Some more local goings-on,

and at last,

another letter mailed to Miss Dorothy Reck 

in Louisville, KY.

Her name has appeared 

quite often in this scrapbook...

And on the next-to-last page,

far right on top,

there is a newspaper photo of pretty Miss Reck!...

So what was the relationship of Lillian to Dorothy,

and why did Lillian give the book to her?

Here is a glimpse of the letter that was sent from Lillian to Dot

at the hotel in Crab Orchard Kentucky...

They were cousins!

And who was the "mixed media artist"?

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As promised, this was the favorite of my antique finds

from Florida.

I started looking at this book in the shop,

and couldn't bear leaving it there and never finding out

 more about Lillian and Dorothy.

After reading all of the pages,

(a lot more than I could show in these posts)

along with the few letters,

I still don't know much about them,

and didn't see any photos of Lillian.

I didn't want to show you all of the letters,

as it seemed that they should remain private.

I hope that you enjoyed looking at some of this sweet book, though.

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Dear Lillian and Dorothy:

My name is Sue.

It was nice getting to know you.

How did your lives end up? 

Did you remain close to each other throughout your lives?

I'd like to think that you did.