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14 Sep 2026

Growing up in Riverview Manor in the 1950s

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  • September 14, 2026
  • Richard Lovejoy
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Jody Heyward shares her memories of a “quintessentially 1950s childhood” in Hastings.

Recalled by
Jody Heyward
Location
Sugar Pond
Decades
1950s
Related elements
Hayward, Jody, "Growing up in Riverview Manor," The Hastings Historian, Volume 41: No. 1, Winter 2011
Subjects
Commuting Parks and Playgrounds Recreation Trains and Railroad System
Keywords
Childhood Circle Drive Sugar Pond
Hastings snow days
Playing by “the Irish Flats” as a kid in the 1940s
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