Memoir entry: Jacksonville and Savannah years, 1923–1926; photograph at Mount Hope

Scanned page 116 of Book 2 — Scan of original. Open full size →

Above the photograph, in blue ink:

In ~~June~~ [April written above as correction] 1923 Puck was sent to Jacksonville Fla. as Superintendent of Transportation of Southern division of A. C. L. We lived at 1535 Park St. We were in Jax. three years. Puck was sent to Savannah Ga. in 1926 as General Supt. of 2nd division A. C. L.

A sepia photograph at center: three figures seated at a heavy round library table — a young woman in a dark dress at left, an older bearded man reading by a hurricane lamp at center, and a girl at right. A globe stands on the table and bookshelves line the wall behind.

Beneath the photograph, in blue ink:

This was taken at Mount Hope while we were in Jax. + Dads gone up there for a visit.

While we lived in Jax. we began going to Black Mt. — to Mrs. Broadfoot’s the same year. Pickens went to Camp Carolina in Brevard. He went as a camper for 2 years, and then was a counselor several years.

One year we sent her to Rockmont camp — also in Brevard.

AI Notes

A loose-leaf lined-paper album page with a handwritten memoir entry in blue ink above and below a sepia photograph mounted at center. The photograph shows three figures seated at a heavy round library table: a young woman at left in a dark dress, an older bearded man at center reading by a hurricane lamp, and a girl at right; a globe stands on the table and bookshelves line the wall behind. Continues Amy FitzSimons’s narrative of family moves with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad — Jacksonville from April 1923, Savannah from 1926 — and the family’s summers at Black Mountain, N.C. and Camp Carolina in Brevard. The opening date is a self-correction — Amy first wrote ‘In June 1923’, then struck ‘June’ and wrote ‘April’ above it. The Jacksonville address is ‘1535 Park St.’

The man at the center of the photograph appears to be Amy FitzSimons’s father — “Dads” — visiting Mount Hope. The girl at right is likely Mary Ann; the young woman at left may be a relation. “Her” in the final sentence presumably refers to Mary Ann. The opening month reads “April” (written above a struck-through “June”); the Jacksonville address is 1535 Park St.