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To the 1950 OSU-Michigan snow bowl football game 70 years ago about this time of year
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 11, 2020 - 2:47pm

There is no Ohio State-Michigan football game this year. So, for Buckeye fans the Icon provides this Bluffton account of the famous 1950 snow bowl game. The is an abridged version of the story, published in greater detail in "Bluffton Anthology, Essays on a small Ohio town," collected by Fred Steiner. The book is available from the author and in several downtown businessees.

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I got my card taken down for hitting Nick Houshower - Jessica Edmiston

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 9, 2020 - 10:40am

"Once in the fifth grade I got my card taken down for hitting Nick Houshower in the face with the playground tetherball when he wasn't playing by the rules. I had to stay after school and write a paper about how hitting him made me feel and what I learned. Sorry, Nick." 
- Jessica Edmiston

This is a sample of the content of "Bluffton Anthology - A creek runs through it." Copies are now available for $24.95 plus tax in Bluffton at:
• Roots by Strattons
• The Food Store
• The Black Lab
• Bluffton Senior Citizens Center
• The Dough Hook

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Rick Ramseyer: "All these years later, I still remember the dread of the quarry test"

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 8, 2020 - 3:54pm

"All these years later, I still remember the dread I felt before taking the quarry test. This wasn't a written exam, and it had nothing to do with school. It was a rite of passage for any Bluffton kid who wanted to earn the right to swim in the Buckeye."
- Rick Ramseyer

This is a sample of the content of "Bluffton Anthology - A creek runs through it." Copies are now available for $24.95 plus tax in Bluffton at:
• Roots by Strattons
• The Food Store
• The Black Lab
• Bluffton Senior Citizens Center
• The Dough Hook

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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. 

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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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