Sunlight filters through leafy maples onto a brick-paved pedestrian lane in Macatawa, Michigan — the wide staircases and wraparound porches of Victorian-era summer cottages crowd both sides of Mishawaka Avenue in this linen-era view that perfectly evokes the genteel resort culture of Lake Macatawa near Holland, a destination beloved by Dutch Reformed families from Chicago and western Michigan since the 1880s. Macatawa Park was one of Michigan's most popular freshwater summer resorts, and this view captures the intimate, neighborly scale of its cottage community. On the back, mailed from Holland on August 3, 1927, a family group — Ed, Sadie, James and Ida — writes to Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Stringer in Port Huron, bubbling with news of their arrival by noon Tuesday after "a lovely trip" with "scenery beautiful" and "everybody well here and having a fine time." Published by C.T. American Art Colored (Curt Teich), card no. 33072.