

Did Leland Gerber take your senior picture?
He did If you graduated from Bluffton High School in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s Most residents 70 and older once sat in the chair where...
May 9, 2024


Before there was Chiles-Laman
There was Diller Funeral Home; here's Paul Diller in front of his 1949 Packard hearse Before there was Chiles-Laman Funeral and Cremation...
May 7, 2024


Home of fine foods and good service
When Beaverdam was the crossroads of America P-K Truck Stop Restaurant in Beaverdam once stood at the cross roads of America When U.S. 30...
May 3, 2024


Mushrooms hunting advice from the pros
A.C. Burcky: sit on a rotted tree stump and listen quietly till a mushroom pops, then go look for it. It’s mushroom season. To prove it,...
May 2, 2024


Dr. Diller meets "The prince of jail breakers"
This guy crawled through 5 miles of sewers to break out of Leavenworth Can you imagine crawling through five miles of sewers to break out...
Apr 30, 2024


BHS class of 1917 as eighth graders
Augsburgers, Bracys, Burkholders, Niswanders, Steiners and many others Members of the Bluffton High School class of 1917 as eighth...
Apr 29, 2024


1940s Bluffton residents' brush with history
Involving Tomoyuki Yamashita, Albert Einstein, F.D. Roosevelt, George Marshall, Mickey Rooney and Carl Spaatz In November 1945 Bluffton...
Apr 26, 2024


A Bluffton school history primer
In five minutes or more - actually this story stops in 1933 We naturally take for granted that there was always a school system in our...
Apr 25, 2024
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