Opening The Shutters

Almost one hundred years of personal short stories chronicling the life of a 20th Century American pioneer. The stories include: -Detailed accounts of farm work, its machinery, and growing up in Iowa during and after The Great Depression. -Discovering ancestral oddities. -A close call while serving in the Korean War. -Taking the American Telephone System records from paper and pencil to the computer. -A humorous case of mistaken identity in the Philippines, resulting in an evening with royalty and an unfortunate assigned escort. -A happy marriage to a Kindergarten owner and teacher. -Raising four children from the farm in Iowa to New Mexico and Colorado. -Singing in Chorales, Choruses, Choirs and Barbershop Quartets, including performing in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York. -Adventurous travel stories abroad to Scandinavia and Switzerland to meet distant relatives, homes and businesses with the Blumer family name. -Finally, memories of family and close friends that kept us laughing and helped along the way.

• | Author: James A. Blumer
• | Publisher: Blumcorr, LLC
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0578911957
• | ISBN-13: 9780578911953