Young Ernie Lyons in a boat, 1922

Teen boy, Ernie Lyons, in a boat. Handwritten on back: "Dear Erin Doon [?] 2-3-22 What have we here? So I live, an Elto. Look at it firmly attached to the rear of the skiff. My, Ernest Fulton Lyons' skiff; that's whose. And tomorrow, Erin Doon at crack of dawn, to men (one of them 18 the fourth of March next) will steal silently along to the said skiff, place it on a truck, and go 8 miles to the canal. Then the skiff propelled by the wonderful Elto will go to Lake Okeechobee with those two men. Who are they? Well you know. Uncle Harry. On Lake Okeechobee going along-the Elto never failed us."

An "elto" is a type of motor for a boat.

Scan gift of Sandra Thurlow, from the collection of Isabel Josephine Lyons Williams.

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