"Hello"

This artifact is a card written by Angie Boatenreiter to her parents Mary Ruth and Becker Boatenreiter to catch up. The submitter provided the following information about the artifact's history:

"This is a card I found while searching through my grandparent's things. My aunt was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and is following up on my grandparent's visit there. I never knew my aunt personally so it was nice to find this card she had written."

Angie Boatenreiter

Maryana Boatenreiter

Unpublished

Maryana Boatenreiter

English

1975-1999

Greeting Card

paper, colored ink, pen ink, card

Person to Person (Analogue)

1-22-94
Dear Mama + Daddy,
Hope all is well on the island. Not much happening here besides our last ice storm. I was at Rebekah's in the Mts. when it hit. It was nice being iced in + not having to worry about being anywhere. Atlanta got iced pretty good too, so all business was on hold. The Deputy Sheriff came by + checked on us + brought Rebekah cigs. We ate chili + deer meat for days. It was so cold you couldn't stand to be outside for more than a dew minutes at a time. The pump froze twice, but I was able to thaw it out with a hair dryer within a few minutes each time. I tried putting a light bulb in there, but it burst in a few seconds. I think her pump speurs out water for some reason. What would that be Daddy?
Anyway we watched Sat. T.V. until I has seen everything there was to see. The Sogue River in front of her house froze on the edges a few feet out from the banks + in the middle around the rocks. We didn't have a thermometer, but I think it was well below zero for days. The schools were still closed when I got out of there yesterday. It was too bad that there was no snow, only ice. Snow would have been prettier.
Yall have probably already read these articles, but I thought it funny that she had nothing else to write about all week but Boatenreiters'. Mama you're now the new "coon" expert + Daddy is "the island expert on everything," Yall will be national celebs' soon. One of my customers read the one about the typewriter ribbon + said, "what a wonderful sounding name, Becker Boatenreiter." It just rolled off her OVER
[scribble] tongue, as she giggled. You moved to a small island + now you're becoming famous.
This customer is yall's age + used to model at the Rich's Tea Room. Beck said you used to take him + somebody there years ago. Her name is Rutledge Gross + she met Celestine back then. She loved the article.
Bic is fine. He drives me crazy, but that's nothing new. He's back to work + his eye has straightened out a lot. He still can't see good, but he has an eye appoint. soon.+ I'm going to take him for his angiogram [mis probably] Feb. 7th. He says he'll take a few days off for that.
I'm trying to get geared up for taxes, but haven't done much yet. I've been thinking about buying a new truck instead of investing in any property. That way I can tell Bic I have no money. He wants to add on or move + I don't want to do either. I've been thinking about a new Dodge Pickup or another Van. I can't decide. [scribble] I should probably keep the old clunker. Love yall lots. Angie

Hello
Union Hill Paperworks
Hallmark

Cartoon picture of a woman with pointy classes, looks like a librarian, with a word bubble that says "hello".

"Mama + Daddy"

Maryana Boatenreiter 12/14/16
Shaimaa Khanam, 01/10/17