Switzerland Trail Of America ?

i pulled this one at the postcard show because its a bit different..i like different !

I must admit I had to look up "The Switzerland Trail of America" as I had never heard of it before. Apparently, in its heydey it accommodated much rail traffic. Today, it appears to be little more than a hiking trail:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_Trail

Given the date of the postcard shown (based on the stamp) I suspect it was postmarked sometime in the 1910s, which makes perfect sense based upon this period newspaper article about the demise of the railroads that were once ever present in the region:



Kind of sad, really, but certainly a nice collectible from a by-gone era.

Its amazing what we stamp collectors can find in postcard dealers 25 cent boxes !

A Boston Transcript newspaper excerpt dated June 20, 1901 confirms that Miss Anna May Roundy graduated Chelsea, Mass. High School in 1901 "cum laude", so she would have been, perhaps, 22 years old at the time the above post card was received. She later attended Boston University College of Business Administration (1914-1915).