Opening The Shutters

Almost one hundred years of personal short stories and full color photographs 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 Army during 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 a computer programmer spending 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, many memories of family and close friends that helped along the way.