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“Don’t you realize? This is it. We may never see each other again.”

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 2, 2020 - 4:37pm

Some quotes heard in Bluffton:
“Don’t you realize? This is it. We may never see each other again.”
Jim Opperman

Elmer Neufeld once asked me, “Jaye, what is art?"
"I answered, your signature. That's art." 
Jaye Bumbaugh

“When I tell people that I'm the postmaster's daughter they say, 'Oh, yeah.' I can never get away with anything because he's going to find out.” 
Allie Gratz-Collier

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Bluffton Anthology - here's what

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 29, 2020 - 9:56pm

CLICK HERE FOR AN ORDER FORM

"Bluffton Anthology - a creek runs through it" will be available next week in selected downtown stores.

Copies may also be ordered from the author, Fred Steiner. A prority mail order blank for persons out of town, and a pick-up order blank for people in Blulffton are attached.

The book sells for $24.95 plus tax. 

MORE ABOUT THE BOOK

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Ruth Naylor reveals a 1981 BHS yearbook secret

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 25, 2020 - 10:21am

Ruth Naylor, on being the BHS yearbook advisor:
"I was the Buccaneer yearbook advisor. Matt Ziessler, a senior and our staff artist in 1981, created some lovely artwork for the interior of the book and also designed the cover which features two large foaming waves on a sea of blue.

"If you look very closely at the white foam, you can see the words “Pink Floyd,” the name of a popular singing group that some but certainly not everyone appreciated in the Eighties.

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Confessions of a "marching band geek"

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 24, 2020 - 1:27pm

Amanda Rhonemus:
I can honestly say that I loved being in marching band in high school. There was actually an award created for me called the "I Love Marching Band More Than Life Itself " award.

It was one of those things that people made fun of, but I absolutely loved. I don't know that I can put the feeling into words, but I can say that I always have and always will be a marching band geek.

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In Bluffton everyone loves a good lie, with a twist of fabrication

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 22, 2020 - 2:51pm

In Bluffton everyone loves a good lie, with a twist of fabrication and a bit of exaggeration told by someone who can pull it off successfully. 

Bluffton Anthology is not a book about Bluffton lies or Bluffton hearsay.  

All the stories really happened. Some are remembered correctly and some are remembered as we wished they happened. 

It took seven years but we checked the facts and got everything right – at least we think we so. The big question we ask ourselves would this book pass the Chuck Hilty, Dick Jordan and Sam Dilller test?

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Men aren’t the only story tellers in Bluffton Anthology

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 21, 2020 - 5:39pm

Men aren’t the only story tellers in Bluffton Anthology.

Joanne Niswander tells what it was like growing up on a farm with her big brother Norman Vercler.  Norm could diagnose broken TVs, radios and even broken bones. She also tells what we didn’t know about him.

Ruth Naylor relates her experiences as a Bluffton student and a teacher with some surprising and humorous classroom distractions.

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