Description
This postcard features a serene landscape with a charming house surrounded by lush greenery and trees. The scene captures a peaceful moment, inviting viewers to reflect on the beauty of nature. The back of the postcard includes a historical reference to John Greenleaf Whittier, indicating its connection to literary history. The postcard is dated December 1912.
Front Text (verbatim):
SAFETY
Peoples State Savings Bank
EAST JORDAN, MICH.
Stockholders Control Over 20 Banks in State of Michigan
DECEMBER • 1912
Back Text (verbatim):
POST CARD
Birthplace of Whittier
"The hills are dearest which our chi'dish feet
Have climbed the earliest; and the streams
most sweet
Are ever those at which our young lips
drank."
-Whittier.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER was born De-cember 17, 1807, in the east parish of Haver-hill, Essex County, Massachusetts, in a house built by his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Whittier, in 1688. The house is not unlike thousands of the pioneer homes which exist in New England, but few are so excellently preserved and none is so deservedly famous, for this is the homestead which Whittier describes in his "Snow-Bound," and this single dwelling has thus become in literature a type of the pioneer New England home.
A Series of Twelve Little Journeys to the Birth-places and Homes of Famous Americans.
