We know...it's still warm out and trees are green. Tops are down on covertibles, shorts are the normal uniform of the day.
Here's a refresher course on Ohio winters, in case you've forgotten. In a strange sense, this Main Street January 2014 photo has some beatiful qualities: blue haze of a sunset, Christmas ornaments on light poles and Jack Frost. If we could only remove the temperature from the equation.
Below are comparision photos from August to December - same view.
Book ReViews, 123 S. Main St., Bluffton, will hold a genealogy and family history roundtable discussion with Joanne Vercler Niswander from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 20, according to Dr. Christina Walton, manager.
"Discover more about genealogy, also called family history, the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history in this roundtable discussion of methods used by Joanne Niswander, author of four books on family research," said Walton.
Vocalist Bethany Babcock will present her Bluffton University senior recital at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, in Yoder Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.
Babcock, a mezzo-soprano from Deshler, Ohio, will sing both classical and popular numbers. The program includes music by Mozart and Schubert, and from “Mulan” and “Hairspray,” accompanied by pianist Ana Yoder Coulter. In addition, Babcock and mezzo-soprano Ashley Musgrave, a senior from Ada, Ohio, will perform a duet of “For Good,” from “Wicked.”
Drs. Lucia Unrau and Peter Terry, members of the Bluffton University music faculty, will discuss their summer work at the Interlochen (Mich.) Center for the Arts in a campus colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
Titled “If You Listen, You Can Hear Them Coming: Making Art at Interlochen,” their talk is free and open to the public.
Dr. James M. Harder, president of Bluffton University, will present the annual President’s Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, in Founders Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
A Northwestern University undergraduate first got Dr. Ken Bain’s attention because he hadn’t read a book assigned by Bain for a history course.
But given a second chance by the instructor, the student went well beyond simply finishing an assignment. He “developed a deep commitment, and out of that commitment came his devotion to deep learning,” said Bain, who cited the story in his 2012 book, “What the Best College Students Do.”
