By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com If you lived in Bluffton during the summer of 1947–76 vacations ago–chances are your vacation plans were announced on the front page of The Bluffton News. And, if you don’t believe this, simply scroll to the bottom of the feature and see for yourself. You will discover the vacation plans of over 50 Bluffton families. This became a
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton. It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those accounts follow Betty’s. The accounts in this feature are from the mid-1940s. Betty, whose nephew
I enjoyed reading of the recent Dillinger robbery reenactment. I am reading through the old Bluffton News online and found this about the auction of some furnishings from the Citizens Bank. Wonder where these furnishings are now that probably were in the bank at the time of the robbery. Tom Olson Plain City, OH
By Paula Scott Why should we retell the story of the 1933 robbery of the Citizens National Bank by the John Dillinger gang? Does it glorify a vicious criminal? That certainly wasn’t the effect of the Saturday, August 12 observation of Bluffton History Day that drew some 180 people to the corner of Main and Church streets. Bluffton historian and Icon founder Fred Steiner told
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Remember Sputnik? Only if you were alive in October 1957. Three stories in the Bluffton News that year reveal local fascination and questions about this first-ever successful artificial satellite. Sputnik ignited the space race. It fed U.S. fears that our nation had fallen behind in developing new technology. It in turn, intensified the