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.