Here's another view of the Buckeye quarry, where swimming was once a Bluffton summer experience. Paul Diller snapped this photo of a young man doing a cannon ball off the medium dive. (There were three diving boards in the quarry.) We're guessing this photo is from the late '50s or early '60s.
Notice the cement ledge and raft. Portions of the ledge still exist. (Jim Diller photo collection)
Do you enjoy learning a new craft? Bluffton Public Library will be holding a jewelry workshop on Monday, March 7, from 6-7:30 p.m. Pat Cox will host the workshop and participants will have the opportunity to make either a bracelet or a necklace.
The Bluffton University men's basketball team hosted Heartland Conference rival Hanover College on Saturday, February 5. The Beavers fell behind 10-0 less than three minutes into the game and lost 83-76 in HCAC action. Bluffton slipped to 14-6 overall and 7-6 in the HCAC. The Panthers improved to 15-5 overall and 11-3 in conference play.
The Bluffton University women's basketball fell to Hanover College, 78-71, in Founders Hall on Saturday, February 5, 2011. Bluffton dropped to 8-12 overall and 5-8 in the HCAC while Hanover improved to 13-1 in the conference and 19-1 on the season.
I enjoy very much reading the Bluffton Icon on my computer. I lived in Bluffton from 1963-1965. I was a Dutch MCC-trainee working at the library of (then) Bluffton College.
Shortly after having arrived at Bluffton some people took me to a small local museum, not far from Bluffton. At that museum there were many appliances and old machinery which we still used every day on my parents' farm back in Holland. It was like living in two eras at the same time.
