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So what makes us different? What goes on in Bluffton? What doesn't go on in Bluffton, one might ask instead.
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On Thanksgiving Day 1956, Elvis Presley performed twice in the Toledo Sports Arena. Two days later he performed at the Troy Hobart Arena, just north of Dayton.
In 1956, without an interstate highway, the most direct route from Toledo to Troy went through Bluffton on old U.S. 25, which was Main Street.
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.
"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
"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
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
