Opening the Shutters (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780578911953)

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.

Author: James A. Blumer
ISBN-10: 0578911957
ISBN-13: 9780578911953
Publisher: Blumcorr, LLC
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d