Butch and Maggie Miller and their two sons, Alton and Gary lived in this house through the 1950s. After Alton and Gary were married and moved away, Butch and Maggie lived here through the 1990s. In her later years, Maggie had to use a wheelchair and you can see the ramp coming from the front porch.

Maggie was my father, Art Heiden's cousin and they were close throughout their lives. Butch and Maggie were fun people and, as a teenager, I would sometimes drop my parents off at their place so they could have an evening of cards and laughter...and a few beers. I would go on a date or meet some friends for a while before going back to pick up my parents around 11:00 or 11:30. The house was on a dark, lonely, unpaved road typical of the rural area in those days.

For those of you younger than 60, that thing sticking out of the roof of the house is the base of the television antenna. We used to have to employ those things so that we could get ABC, NBC, CBS and, maybe, a PBS station on our TVs. That was all there was before cable.