Scott 424 on a "Bush Meeting" Post Card

Have this interesting post card. It references someone going to a Bush Meeting. Can't date this card as it appears to have been cancelled with pencil. The Scott 424 was issued in 1914 so that's a pretty good indicator. I can't even tell where this card was mailed from or to. I did find this link about a law that Maryland passed in reference to Bush Meetings.. http://books.google.com/books?id=NB...v=onepage&q="Bush Meeting" -president&f=false. Found another site that mentioned that Bush Meetings were outdoor religious gatherings.

Any comments?

 

100 year old version of a text message. !

Looks like the name is Hazel Hunter, you could check with either the 1910 or 1920 census but it might be thousands of people with that name.

The address looks something like "Local, RR (Rural Route) D2" which also isn't particularly informative.

 

I think you are probably right about the outdoor religious gathering. Perhaps the "bush meetings" were an outgrowth of the "brush arbor meetings" of an earlier generation.

http://www.thepineywoods.com/BrushArborJly07.htm

 

I tried Googling Hazel Hunter, but too common a name to come up with anything, especially since I couldn't search her name with a location. The Bush Meetings had to have been large affairs if Maryland thought there was a need to pass a law regulating them.

 

Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting.