Would you believe that a Bluffton High School graduate earned four Super Bowl rings? That honor goes to Neil Schmidt’s collection, who might well be the best male athlete to graduate from BHS.
The 1940s-era Bluffton High School athletic standout in football and basketball started in both sports at Purdue, was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals and became a scout for the San Francisco 49ers.
He was the only Pirate to be named first team all-Ohio in two sports the same season, in football and basketball.
Reviewed by Robert McCool
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is a 71-year-old vet of two wars who rides through the state of Texas reading the news of the world to groups of people for a dime apiece.
A newspaper printer who lost his press in the just finished War Between the States, he buys newspapers from both far away and local to Texas and people flock to his readings in order to hear the latest news. Many are illiterate.
Later in this series we will feature the David and Elizabeth Neuenschwander Stauffer family. One of their children, Regina, married Christian Matter, This couple is the focus of this week’s column.
Reviewed by Craig Hoffman
Often even the best Valentine’s Day plans fail. In a year when going out to celebrate love is difficult, what is one to do? Thankfully, there are tons of great singers who can put a little romance in your life even while you are sitting at home.
What are your favorite love songs? Let the Icon know in the comments!
By Derek Swartzlander
How do you listen to your music?
• Do you have a large stack of CDs?
• How about a crate of old records?
• Maybe you even have a dusty collection of 8-tracks or an iPod full of mp3 files.
These are what you probably think of when you want to listen to music, however, one of the fastest growing formats for music is streaming.
Streaming is the use of a computer, cell phone, or other technology to have music (or other media, such as movies) delivered to your device.
Does RR 1 or RR 2 mean anything to you? How about initials RFD?
Those last three initials stand for “rural free delivery.” And, prior to 1901 there was no rural delivery available of any type for persons living outside of the Bluffton village.
Here’s the story, of how rural free delivery arrived in Bluffton and the eventual creation of RR 1 and RR 2, Bluffton – what are those anyway?
Much of the details are from “The Town at the Fork of the Riley’s.”
