James A Blumer

Opening The Shutters James A Blumer

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 digital age. -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.