Sent on a warm July morning in 1917, this sepia-toned real-photo style card of St. Agnes Church in Dalton, Massachusetts carries a brief, cheerful note from a visitor who signs off as Agnes — a delightful coincidence given the subject — reporting that the family is "having a fine time" and finding the little Berkshire mill town "becoming quite a little city" nestled in "a beautiful country." The Gothic Revival wooden church, with its soaring pointed steeple, lancet windows, and cross-crowned belfry, rises elegantly against a pale summer sky, surrounded by mature elms and a glimpse of a neighboring clapboard porch. Postmarked Dalton, Mass., July 13, 1917 at 9 AM, and addressed to a woman named — from what is legible — Mrs. Joseph S. in Amston, Connecticut, this card is a small, touching window into New England Catholic parish life on the eve of America's entry into the Great War.