More from the scrapbook featuring Anne Flavia Reese during the 22 months before her brother Bill was born.  Photos from Iowa City, Iowa, Buffalo, and Lockport, New York.

The song I sang here was a favorite of all 3 kids. It is
The Old Woman and the Little Pig from a record by Jean Ritchie.

Anne Flavia's first week, 1958

These photos were made in Iowa City before Hayne and I moved to Buffalo, NY for his first teaching job at the University there.

Granny Reese (who is in the lower photo )came with her husband,
Tom F. Reese to Buffalo to help us move.  Anne travelled well since she was just two weeks old.

letters from Margaret summer 1972

Margaret, with Anne and Bill, went to Iowa City one summer to visit Hayne and Nancy.  She wrote these letters to me while she was there, using Hayne's typewriter.

a letter from Granny Reese 1957

Right after Tom F & Marian Reese left Hayne and me in Iowa City in our new home, Marion wrote me this letter.

Mrs. Reese was a considerate and loving mother-in-law whose memory I will always treasure.

Dallas, Tx. Sept 26, 1957

Patsy, Dear:
     We got to Dallas last night about six.  We stopped off in Grandview to see Tom F's 94 year old aunt Ola.  She is remarkable..can get out of bed and sit in a wheel chair.
     Then we went to Martin City to see a cousin Tom F. hadn't seen in 45 years.  He visited Aunt Ola when he was twelve years old and hasn't seen the cousins since.  We went down through Carthage to see another cousin Henry, and they have your house…a huge white frame with great big living room, sun porch (with marble floor) breakfast room, kitchen and glassed in back .  Downstairs four bedrooms, a sleeping porch and 2 bathrooms with marble floors and walls half way up.
      Their only daughter got married June 14th, and she and her husband are in Yale U. and their son is married and lives in New York.
     The trip back was pleasant..cool weather…it had rained last week.
     The enclosed bills are for you..put them aside till you get homesick, then go to the show, get  haircut, or something.  I'm sure that you have already got the apartment all arranged the way you were working.  I hope you didn't wear yourself out.  We are so happy that Hayne has someone of his own with him.  He must have gotten pretty lonesome sometimes.  With your nice personality you will soon make lots of friends.  I hope there are some nice couples in the apartment (building)

     Did you get the TV to work?  I hope so they have some good programs.
     If you think of anything vital you need, let me know.  Idon't remember seeing any pillows in the apartment. I''m sure you will arrange things over a few times till you get them to osuit you.  It's all fun, and here's "good housekeeping" to you.  Make Hayne help….

Love, Marion

P. S. I'm sending some thread, needles, etc.  The recipes are good if you have someone over.  They are nota very expensive.

The first of Hayne and Patsy's children

Our first child was born August 1, 1958.  She was ten days later than the schedule!!!  We named her Anne Flavia after my mother and Hayne's grandmother on his Waring side.

My mother came to Iowa City just before Anne was born to help out and she stayed until Daddy and Bill and Bob all drove up to Iowa City to pick her up and take her home.  

Then we started making plans to move to Buffalo, New York where Hayne's first teaching posotion would be, at the University of Buffalo.  For the move his parents came up and we rented a trailer to pull behind their car with our things in it. I don't think we had a car even then; I think we bought one in Buffalo later on.

Our first apartment, August, 1957

106 South Gilbert St. in Iowa City is the address of our first apartment.  Hayne and I were brought to Iowa City by his parents and he refused to carry me over the threshold.  There is a circle drawn in ink on our front door.  It was a tiny place.  The bed would only go one way in the bedroom.  I remember making a bedspread and curtains out of printed blue and white checked fabric. I made it by hand because we didn't have a sewing machine.

below is a picture of my good-looking husband at Easter of 1958.