ANDERSON ARCHIVES

Esther Howe Wheeler (Bill Anderson’s mother) and her five sisters lived a wonderful childhood on the farm in the early days of electricity. The oldest was born in 1889 and the youngest in 1904. The girls developed a self reliant and creative sensibility as they grew up and then left the farm. The second youngest, Eirene (bottom right corner), was impish as a girl but at age 92 wrote memories of her childhood. A few selections, plus a letter written to Esther, sketch familiar places and events in Concord at the beginning of the twentieth century. The full memoir is well worth reading and can be accessed via link below.

Eirene writes: “Time is so short!!! So many things to remember, there is just one thing to do, sit down and relive those happy days of so long ago growing up on the farm in Nine Acre Corner. Perhaps the clearest perspective is from one of the youngest of six sisters who viewed those years firsthand and cherishes the memories.”

“The young people of today have no concept of our young years. We made our own entertainment. There were no radios, or television and there were few young folk in the area and yet we were happy. Yes, I suppose they were caring times.”

MOTHER AND THE 1911 CADILLAC
HOLIDAYS
FARRAR POND PICNIC
WHITE POND MEMORIES IN LETTER

EIRENE’S MEMORIES IN FULL