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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.
• 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.