I have been on the lookout for hand colored postcards published by the Brush and Needle Studio in Ogunquit Maine. I haven’t come across any yet……..but wait, here is one right under my nose.

I was about to dismiss this card as being quite uninteresting, but then it sort of popped out at me that this was exactly (almost) what I was looking for. It must have been a very early one published by the Brush & Needle. I had been looking for hand-colored cards and hadn’t realized there were black & white ones. The B&N Studio was just across the street from Oar Weed Cove.

I worked and lived in the Studio the summer of 1957. The artist who did the cards was sort of like a grandmother to me and I became very fond of her and her sister. We are in fact related – these sisters were my uncle’s mother and aunt – Mimi and Auntie Alma.

Time moves on and the Brush and Needle became and is still Barnacle Billie’s!

1. 1. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
2. 2. South Riding by Winifred Holtby
3. 3. Deep River by Karl Marlantes
4. 4. BIRDIE by Candace Simar
5. 5. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The list is short but 2 of the books were long, but long or relatively short, each one was well worth reading.

I I am not sure of the date for this card. It looks as if the Lodge was refurbished after we left Kenya in 1995. Also the designation of Mt. Kenya National Park is new to me.