Geologist • Wanderer • Storyteller
Five decades chasing geology took me from Indiana farm country to deserts, mountains, jungles, offshore waters, and more than a few places I probably had no business being.
Along the way, I collected stories.
Now I write them.
The Rietman Family Chronicles
Three books. Nearly two centuries. One family moving through a changing world. From two young Prussian immigrants arriving in America in 1836, through my parents remarkable twentieth-century lives, to my own wanderings around the world, the Rietman Family Chronicles tell the story from three very different perspectives.
John "Reety" Rietman 