From hobby to Blaze By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News A cutout of the Reams is included in the display. The couple started making and painting lighted cutouts for their yard in 1938, thrilled by electricity coming to the farm the year before. Courtesy of Paula Scott Courtesy of Bluffton Icon Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society Harry and Dorothy Ream’s display of wooden cutouts has been a part of Bluffton for decades. The Lima News file Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society Children peer in a downtown shop window in Bluffton with a display piece inside in 1992.