Some Introductions: Miller Parents

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Larry.
Categories: Uncategorized.

I have so many photos I would like to put up on this blog…for the record, so to speak, but I will have to refrain from overburdening the viewer. Not that if the photo is small it is a “thumbnail”. Click on the picture to see full size.

First here are two very early photos of my mother and father, Michael Miller and Irene Preston Miller.

A Young Michael MillerA Young Irene Miller

Don’t ask the date these were taken, but it had to have been in the late 1930s or early 1940’s.

Since we are in black and white… here is the first picture of Carole and I as a married couple, taken on our wedding day. All thin and lots of hair.

Larry & Carole at their Wedding

Larry Miller grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, NY in a very rustic (that means it was never finished!) house in the woods. Here is a photo of the house and a photo of his parents with his older sister Diana (from left), Cynthia and brother Philip (on right).

Our Home in CrotonMillerfamily in Croton

Here is a photo of Carole, Michael Miller and Larry Miller, just a few months before dad past on.

Carole, Michael Miller and Larry at the Croton Damn

The Miller family in June’05 on the porch of our home in Annapolis.

familyjune05.jpg

And, our Victorian home in Annapolis, known in town as “The Wisteria House.”

annapolis.jpg

Debra Davis

Comment on March 28th, 2007.

My old friend, Susan Bumbarger, has asked me to try to find some info on Irene. We enjoyed her visits to The Atlanta Knitting Guild so much. I bought some of her hand-dyed yarn that she sent for Susan to sell. I remember talking with her about felting fibers 20 years ago, long before it became as trendy as it is today. Anything you can share, I’m sure Susan will be happy to know. Susan & Bruce are in a nursing home & don’t have computer access. Thanks!

Larry

Comment on March 28th, 2007.

Debra, My mother is in Bloomsberg, PA, near where my sister Diana lives. She is 90 years old now and she is in a nursing home. I am afraid that she is not terribly coherent. She remembers things from 50 years ago, but has trouble remembering anything that happened or was said in the near term. My father past on a few years ago. In her room she has many of her creative stitchery “things”. I have one of her spinning wheels in my home.

thanks for asking about her. I will tell her you inquired.

Larry Miller

Elle Tracy

Comment on May 14th, 2007.

How lucky to find this! I, too, knew your mother–she treated me like a daughter. She visited me in Seattle and we travelled to Alaska together. I miss her kindness. She is a glorious soul and I love her. She taught me so much, not only about fiber, but about being a human. She was so proud of her children. Your pa was a pistol, too. Everybody loved him.

One of my favourite things about your mum and dad is the way they met, or at least how they spent their early years together–dancing and in Cuba, no less.

Larry

Comment on May 14th, 2007.

Elle,

That is very nice. I will pass that along to her. I visited her yesterday, Mother’s Day. She has declined a great deal and I suspect will not be with us very long.

Your kind thoughts are appreciated.

Larry Miller

Sandy Wilson

Comment on March 26th, 2008.

We have the Hudson River Quilt done by Irene Preston Miller and quilting friends in our Glencoe art materials. I was looking for a biography.

Mark Blanchfield

Comment on April 23rd, 2008.

I would be very interested to know the current location of the Hudson River Quilt. My grandmother, Janet Fiori, did the George Washington Bridge square described in the 1990 New York Times article. This quilt is a major milestone in the history of this form of expressive activism, and obviously I am very proud of my grandmother’s small role in it.

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