Ten girls waiting at the train station — that's the cheerful news May dashed off on this dual-view Private Mailing Card postmarked Bennington, Vermont in 1906, capturing a moment of small-town sociability alongside two of the Green Mountain State's most storied landmarks. The left vignette shows the soaring 306-foot Bennington Battle Monument obelisk, completed in 1891 to mark the 1777 Revolutionary War victory, framed by a leafy summer avenue; the right vignette depicts the Catamount Tavern monument, topped by the fierce stuffed catamount that once stood atop the old tavern where Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys convened. Printed in the undivided-back era and authorized under the Act of Congress of May 19, 1898, the card carries a 1-cent Franklin stamp and was addressed to Mr. & Mrs. M. H. Hudson at "Windermere," Syracuse, New York — a genteel named residence suggesting comfortable Gilded Age circumstances. May's breezy message — "fine weather for once" — rings as fresh today as it did 118 years ago.