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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