By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Blue point oysters, bisque of lobster, baked shad with piquant sauce, cheese straws, Philadelphia capon, Roman punch, cream tartlets with foam sauce…and, we’ve not yet mentioned the roasts on the menu. Sounding like exceptional cuisine of a multi-star restaurant, it is actually from a Main Street Bluffton restaurant of 125 winters ago.
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com The Main Street Bluffton building housing today’s CVS Pharmacy served the community as a retail business for nearly 125 years. Originally the building housed two businesses, one on the north side and the other on the south. It wasn’t always a pharmacy. In its infant years one of the businesses on the south side was Wise Clothing and Shoe
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Question: When did Bluffton High School first offer a girls’ basketball team? Answer: We aren’t certain, but we are getting closer to the answer. We’ve pushed it back to 1911, thanks to a photo in the collection of Rose Harvey, whose grandmother, Clara Fett Andrews, was on the team. Here’s the sophomore girls’ basketball team from that
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Imagine attending a lecture in Bluffton presented by a Cheyenne speaking from the point of view of native Americans just four years after the Battle of Little Bighorn. That battle occurred in 1876. The lecture, by a 19-year-old native American, who we only know as “Star,” took place in Bluffton in 1880. Little is known about how the