Question on old postcard collecting

[egri]

I prefer writing on mine. A couple of years ago, I was looking for old postcards of New England, specifically Rhode Island, where I grew up. I ended up with about eight of them. I enjoyed getting to read the notes on the back and see how my hometown had changed over the years, though not always for the better. One of them, depicting a boarding school nearby, had a note from a student to his aunt, another showed my church but before its steeple was built and some nearby buildings were torn down, and another showed the town's waterfront before it was built up.