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The late Robert Kreider provides 15 images of Riley Creek from the 1930s

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 13, 2021 - 4:07pm

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The late Robert Kreider provided 15 images of Riley Creek that he remembered while growing up in Bluffton in the 1930s. Here are five of those images:

• Told of a tribe of gypsies camping along the creek for a day under a weeping willow tree, fashioning chairs and baskets from the willowy branches.

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Dave Essinger on a winter liminal - no one knows I am here

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 12, 2021 - 6:18am

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Dave Essinger shares his experience walking in the Bluffton University Nature Preserve: Winter Liminal - No one knows I am here.

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Rick Emmert: "In the midst of that halftime show suddenly my right hand drumstick broke"

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 10, 2021 - 9:29pm

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Rick Emmert writes: 
In the fall of 1964, I was a lowly freshman in high school playing saxophone in Miss Souder’s marching band, the product of her initiative from the previous year, which we affectionately called “sax lessons” to train some of the clarinet players to play saxophone during the fall marching band season to give the band a stronger sound.

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Ruth Naylor: My story on killing and dressing a chicken

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 9, 2021 - 12:42pm

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Ruth Naylor writes: 

This vivid memory illustrates quite well how times have changed since the early Fifties.

Miss Edna Ramseyer, Bluffton College professor,  required all members of the Foods Class to KILL, dress, and cook a chicken. At home, we raised chickens and marketed them (fresh dressed, cut-up or whole) every weekend.

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David Rempel Smucker: "We had been out in the country setting off firecrackers"

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 7, 2021 - 9:19pm

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Written by David Rempel Smucker: "One memorable teenage experience pertained to a July 4 night, when a group of us were celebrating in a car. We had been out in the country setting off firecrackers and decided to drive through Bluffton to the country on the other side of town.

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Clarence Kooker: "When I started teaching in 1951-52 there were 41 students in my classroom"

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 28, 2020 - 4:22pm

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"I started teaching in Bluffton schools in 1951-52. I taught fourth grade and in my first class there were 41 children. The room I had in the old grade school had only windows in the back. With 41 children, the room was crammed full. The rest rooms were in the basement.

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