The Swiss Community Historical Society (SCHS) of Bluffton and Pandora will conduct tours of the Schumacher Homestead by appointment this summer. The tours begin on Saturday, June 1.
The restored 1843 farmhouse, outbuildings, bank barn, kitchen garden, and grounds are located at 8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton.
"After a year of video tours on YouTube, we're excited to be hosting visitors at the homestead once again," said SCHS president Gary Wetherill.
"Appointments will ensure that guests and volunteer docents don't have to sit around waiting."
Philip Sugden, Bluffton University art professor, has an exhibit currently open at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts' in Findlay.
The exhibit is in the Performing Arts’ Fisher/Wall Art Gallery. It is the current exhibition by MCPA/Fifth Third Bank Wall of Fame inductee, Philip Sugden, titled, “Inland Empire: Recent Work by Artist, Philip Sugden.”
About the artist
Born and raised in Swanage, Dorset, England, Sugden is a graduate of the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris American Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris.
A senior breakfast returns tomorrow, according to Greg Denecker, Bluffton school superintendent.
Bluffton schools will host a senior citizen breakfast performance with the BHS jazz band at 8:30 a.m., Friday, May 14, in the Middle School cafetorium.
Bluffton school students are not in session on Friday.
This evening (Wednesday, May 12) at 5:30 p.m., Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will deliver a statewide address to Ohioans, continuing his conversation on where we are in our fight against the Coronavirus and our progress towards reaching the end of the COVID pandemic.
WHAT: Statewide Address to Ohioans on Progress in the Fight Against COVID