Dene Rupe (WWI-Era Photo Album)

As we move on to page 29 of the album, I believe we are still at the District Convention of the Epworth League, June 1918. These two young folks are not identified, but they look familiar from previous photos.


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Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

A handwritten note behind the second photo identifies its subject as "Dene Rupe."



I'm less interested in Miss Rupe, bless her smiling little face, than I am in what's going on behind her. There we see the intersection of a set of rather light-looking rails running along the side of a road with a set of railroad tracks crossing the road and then curving off in the general direction of some smokestacks far in the distance. I'm wondering: might that be Third Street just west of Duck Creek, where the trolley line and the "J" spur cross? Our "J" spur map was drawn at a time when the trolley had ceased to go further east than Main Street, but if we use our imaginations…

(Then again, for all I know, this could be in Layffatte or some such place.)