Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)
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Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)
Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)

Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)

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Everett W. Kuntz (Photographer) Jim Heynen (Contributor)  

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In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother's purse. For the next several years, especially during the summers when he worked on his parents' dairy farm, he clicked the shutter of his trusty Argus all around the quiet town.Everett bought movie reel film in bulk from a mail-order house, rolled his own film, and developed it in a closet at home, but he never had the money to print his photographs. More than two thousand negatives stayed in a box while he married, raised a family, and worked as an electrical engineer in the Twin Cities. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002 - sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film - Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth. He died in 2003, having brought his childhood town back to life just as he was leaving it. 75 duotones
Best known for his short-short stories about the boys, Jim Heynen has published widely as a writer of poems, novels, nonfiction, and short fiction. His stories about the boys have been featured often on National Public Radio s All Things Considered. The most recent collection of these stories, "The Boys House," was named Editors Choice for Best Books of 2001 by the "Bloomsbury Review," " Newsday," and "Booklist." He wrote the text for "Harker s Barns: Visions of an American Icon," with photos by Michael Harker (Iowa, 2003). Everett W. Kuntz bought his first camera in 1939 for $12.50. As he grew, Kuntz photographed his hometown of Ridgeway, Iowa and stored the film in shoeboxes. It was only after 60 years that he was financially able to print the last of his film, which can be found in "Sunday Afternoon on the Porch." Kuntz died a year later, in 2003, after a long battle with cancer in his home of Mounds View, Minnesota."
  • Contributor: Everett W. Kuntz
  • Imprint: University of Iowa Press
  • ISBN13: 9781587296536
  • Number of Pages: 120
  • Packaged Weight: 458
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Iowa Press
  • Release Date: 2007-06-30
  • Series: Bur Oak Book
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Best known for his short-short stories about the boys, Jim Heynen has published widely as a writer of poems, novels, nonfiction, and short fiction. His stories about the boys have been featured often on National Public Radio s All Things Considered. The most recent collection of these stories, "The Boys House," was named Editors Choice for Best Books of 2001 by the "Bloomsbury Review," " Newsday," and "Booklist." He wrote the text for "Harker s Barns: Visions of an American Icon," with photos by Michael Harker (Iowa, 2003). Everett W. Kuntz bought his first camera in 1939 for $12.50. As he grew, Kuntz photographed his hometown of Ridgeway, Iowa and stored the film in shoeboxes. It was only after 60 years that he was financially able to print the last of his film, which can be found in "Sunday Afternoon on the Porch." Kuntz died a year later, in 2003, after a long battle with cancer in his home of Mounds View, Minnesota."

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