Post Cards during the Great White Fleet
My book, Dearest Minnie, began when I was ten years old though I didn’t know it at the time. I received a large box containing three albums filled with postcards from around the world from an estate of someone I had never met. I spent hours studying the pictures on the cards. As an adult my fascination grew. I took the postcards out of their disintegrating albums to discover they had been sent to my grandfather’s cousin, Minnie Camp from the USS Virginia during the…