Niagara Falls, 1923

My mother's mother, Wilma Dorth (lower left), age 23, while on a cross-country trip with three other women, all school teachers.  In the summer of 1923, the four young women drove from Kansas to Niagara Falls in a Model T Touring Car, stopping along the way to camp, work in a cherry orchard, and, at my grandmother's insistence, stop and read every historical marker.  Wilma married my grandfather in 1926 and gave birth to my mother in 1927.  She died in 1943, never having mentioned this trip to my mother, who did not hear about it until the 1980s. After my grandfather died in 1983, Marge McMahon (upper left), then in her 90s, contacted my mother and told her the story and gave her this photograph.