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.
By:
James A Blumer Imprint: Blumcorr, LLC Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 572g ISBN:9780578911953 ISBN 10: 0578911957 Pages: 224 Publication Date:05 May 2021 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Back cover photo: Me and wife Arlene with the grandkids: Laine Blumer, David and Scott Oathout.