Via the fancy, and very interesting, Daily Postcard blog comes this oddly threatening -- and vaguely anachronistic -- message from 1909:
![Dont Go Back To Reston.jpeg](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Jjh_1frwGYQ/TtO2K6NJReI/AAAAAAAACow/XFibRfo1UUo/Dont%252520Go%252520Back%252520To%252520Reston.jpeg?imgmax=800)
Dear Friend"Your finish if you go back to Reston" sounds like a threat, doesn't it? Or, given that the postcard was written in 1909, maybe it's a veiled warning about attempting to defy the laws of physics. But then look at the front of the card:
I have been to church every night I could and I think I have got my sins forgiven very well by this time. I feel like a chritan any way. I don't no how I look. Well I sopose to-morrow will ind your time in Roseburg for a while. Well of course you can do as you can do as you please but I see your finish if you go back to Reston. I will sing off hoping to hear from you soon. Alee P.
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Okay, now we're mostly just creeped out. Maybe that's just how they do things in Manitoba.
Of course, this still only ranks second in pathetic Reston-themed mash notes.
Hmmmn..judging from the grammar and spelling, I'd say the writer was the first student to take Advanced Placement English at South Lakes High.
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