It’s 1908, and Marcie Douglas is sitting in her kitchen sorting mail and postage stamps. Before long, the dinner table will no longer double as Marcie’s work desk. Along with Marcie’s accolade as the first female postmaster of the Salvo Post Office, Marcie’s husband, Lafayette Douglas, a fisherman and carpenter, is constructing Salvo’s first brick-and-mortar post office building, to be completed in 1913.