"As I Remember It"

About the Book

''As I Remember It'' is a fascinating account of daily activities of a family in the early 1900's. Esther grew up on the prairie of western Kansas. Having been born in 1914, she and her family suffered some of the growing pains of a new frontier. Hard work, perserverance, and humor saw them through. Her stories provide vivid insight into the pioneer activities of hog butchering, wheat threshing, and chicken and egg production. The humor shared with family and neighbors helped them endure the hard times. Esther tells of many incidents of helpful neighbors; a very necessary element for the survival of early settlers.

About the Author

Ray Imhof resides in Colby, Kansas. He is the youngest of four children born to Esther and Robert Imhof. In the early 1980's Ray encouraged his mother, Esther, to record stories and memories of her life. The escapades in this book are a segment of her accounts ''As I Remember It'' of her early years on the western Kansas prairies. Ray attended the Brewster Schools. His grandfather, Charles Imhof was instrumental in Brewster School District consolidation. Ray is proud to have lived most his life in the western Kansas community where his grandparents settled. His hobbies are genealogy, gardening, bird watching, reading, travel, and photography. He loves cats and shares his home with his black cat, Barnaby.

Doris M. Johnson is the second of the four Imhof siblings. She lives in Burlington, Kansas with her husband, Alvin. She and Al are the parents of five adult children. She is retired after seventeen years as a teacher of gifted children. Doris still makes regular visits to western Kansas and the land where her grandparents started farming. Her interests are gardening, reading, traveling, writing, quilting, and cooking. Doris' top priority is spending time with her children and grandchildren.