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By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Over the decades Bluffton residents lift up several memorable individuals to a sacred list known as “Bluffton characters.” One of those special people was Lazarus “Lotzy” Basinger, (also known as Santa Claus) a familiar face in the Bluffton crowd over his 90-year life span. These special people each developed a niche of their own

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By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Blue point oysters, bisque of lobster, baked shad with piquant sauce, cheese straws, Philadelphia capon, Roman punch, cream tartlets with foam sauce…and, we’ve not yet mentioned the roasts on the menu. Sounding like exceptional cuisine of a multi-star restaurant, it is actually from a Main Street Bluffton restaurant of 125 winters ago.

By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com The Main Street Bluffton building housing today’s CVS Pharmacy served the community as a retail business for nearly 125 years. Originally the building housed two businesses, one on the north side and the other on the south. It wasn’t always a pharmacy. In its infant years one of the businesses on the south side was Wise Clothing and Shoe

By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Question: When did Bluffton High School first offer a girls’ basketball team? Answer: We aren’t certain, but we are getting closer to the answer. We’ve pushed it back to 1911, thanks to a photo in the collection of Rose Harvey, whose grandmother, Clara Fett Andrews, was on the team. Here’s the sophomore girls’ basketball team from that

By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Imagine attending a lecture in Bluffton presented by a Cheyenne speaking from the point of view of native Americans just four years after the Battle of Little Bighorn. That battle occurred in 1876. The lecture, by a 19-year-old native American, who we only know as “Star,” took place in Bluffton in 1880. Little is known about how the

By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com The 19th amendment guaranteed all American women the right to vote on Aug. 1920. Despite that date, a brief notation in my grandmother’s diary reads: “I went to vote and Margaret and Florence went with me. Margaret is one year old, Nov. 2, 1915.” The note with the 1915 date confused me. I knew that women did not receive their

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Word flashed over the wire that the Armistice was signed By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Bluffton celebrated the end of the Great War in an all-day-long event on Nov. 11, 1918. The Bluffton News coverage stated it was the biggest demonstration in the town's history. Following is the Nov. 14 Bluffton News account of the Armistice. And, following that story are several

The tale of Bluffton's first teenage speeding ticket By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Take a wild guess. You’ll be way off. In which year was the first Bluffton teenager pulled over by a Bluffton police officer and charged with speeding? Would you believe 1919? The holders of this distinction are Raymond Stratton and Tesla “Tubby” Stearns. These Bluffton speed demons