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Esther Hasting Miller’s Stories

Posted on: 03.24.20 | by Mary

 

Esther Hastings Miller shares 11 stories capturing her precious memories growing up in Clive, Iowa, during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Please find all 11 stories listed in the right sidebar and join Esther on her trip down memory lane…

About Esther Miller:

My parents, younger brother David, and I moved to the old house at the end of what is now Swanson Blvd just before Christmas in 1957. The address was University Avenue and the house may have been the “Kurtz Hill” mentioned in Mildred Swanson’s story about sledding. That yard was outstanding for sledding!

I was in fifth grade at Clive School and David was in third. We lived in that house until June of 1960 when the property was sold and we had to move. We moved to the Johnston area where we went to school for a year. In September of that year, my father was severely injured at work and was never able to work again. We moved to Des Moines, since Mother didn’t drive and Dad couldn’t anymore. And then, in December of 1961 we moved to California. Mother had gone to school in a small town in Southern California in the 40s, so she had friends there and she knew the climate would be a lot easier on all of us.

Both David and I finished high school in California, then I attended two small colleges nearby and graduated, first in my family, in 1970. I worked as an occupational therapist with severely handicapped children, then took several years off to raise my own two children. I eventually returned to work until my husband took early retirement. We traveled around the country in an RV, a long-time dream of ours, until we found some place we wanted to move to.

We sold our home in California and settled into an old farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where we lived for several more years. I returned to California a few years ago and now live way out in the country. Do you see a trend? I love living in the country and over the years I’ve built on the skills I first learned in that old house in Clive.

 



*** Samples of old recipe books shared by Esther Hastings Miller.***

Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book

Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book


Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book

Betty Crocker's Bisquick - inside pages.


Jello Cook Book

Jello Cook Book

Cakes Men Like Cook Book

Cakes Men Like Cook Book


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Esther Hasting Miller Stories

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  • Our First Winter in Clive
  • Miracle of the Well – Part 1
  • Miracle of the Well – Part 2
  • Radio in the Winter
  • Winter in the Old House
  • Memories of the Railroad
  • Visitors – Some Welcome, Some Not
  • School Days in Clive – 1957 to 1960
  • Living off the Land
  • Summer Time and the Livin’ Was…

Esther-Hastings-6th-Grade - 1958

Esther Hastings
6th Grade – 1958

 

Esther Hastings
7th Grade – 1959

 

 

Approximate location of Hastings’ house in the late ’50s from Swanson Blvd.

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