Old Postcards from Apple Limeway

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 Here are some very old postcards of Apple Limeway, the setting of most events in The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist by Ann Fonsweer.



Presumably Ann knew these places well, and though she was an artist her drawings refer to her surroundings only tangentially.



 



 

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