The Brumm House

This is the house where I (Dennis Brumm) grew up. I lived there until 1968, the year after my mother (Leota Walker/Brumm) died. The last few times I have been in New London, there were quite a few changes in the house - which you can see in the photographs. The top photograph was taken in about 1952, the second photograph in about 1985, and the lower three in 2001.

Thankfully the awful charcoal color of the 1985 version of the house has been reformed in by 2001 (these three photos were kindly taken by Becky Murphy and Marge Kimble on June 24, 2001). The old hackberry tree to the north of the house which provided such kind shade years ago is now gone but a lot of new trees have been planted and flourished during the years. If the original front porch were restored and the interesting rock garden in the back yard, I think I'd have no major complaints.

I really wonder if the inside of the house would even be recognizable to me now. I haven't been inside since 1968 when my dad and I moved out. In 1990 when I was in New London for a class reunion, they called the house "The Piper House," the Pipers being the family that moved in when my father and I moved out. They were the people who painted it charcoal.

I really didn't want to move out of that house; in many ways leaving it was the final ending to my mother's death in 1967.

Leota [Walker] Brumm

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