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.