It's the first week of spring, but let's think about Christmas for a moment.
You've watched the Gift of Giving light show extravaganza set up across from Harmon Field for the past two holiday seasons. Ropp Triplett, the mastermind behind the project, thinks there could be several more of those light shows, but on smaller scales, scattered around Bluffton for the 2010 holiday season.
Belles & Beaux
Scores bowled on: Mar.14
Men's High Game
John Dailey 280
Nick Burden 237
Jon Burden 237
Dan Dailey 229
Women's High Game
Steph Moore 223
Steph Moore 202
Ruth Everett 190
Deb Green 183
Isn't it amazing what one day of warm weather and sunshine does to the human spirit. Friday brought out the sunbathers, convertibles, motorbikes, rollerbladers and hand-holders. This scene from Adams Bridge near Ropp Hall says it all about Friday's weather.
Main Street Bluffton in the summer of 1959 looked like this. On the west side of Main Street to Church Street is C.F. Niswander and Son farm implements, Urich's IGA, the Charles Co., Crow's 5 and 10, and Citizens National Bank.
On the east side is the Carma Theater, The Horseshoe Grill and Niswander's Newstand.
I'm supposed to be cleaning. But hey, what's-his-name said he was going to clean and then disappeared to the basement. Which means that he's not cleaning.
But I will. Really. I have this thing about cleaning on Friday nights. This started long ago when we were first married, living in the palatial duplex that overlooked the railroad tracks. That was one heck of an apartment and no amount of cleaning ever really produced anything other than what it was. An ugly apartment with a view of every train that passed through town.
