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(From Bluffton Historian/Author Fred Steiner) Does Bluffton ooze ghosts? You’ll soon find out. Just in time for Halloween, “Where Bluffton’s Ghosts Sleep,” the latest book by Bluffton author Fred Steiner, will be available for the first time in a book signing from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens
2023: Automobiles replace electric railroad By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Some photos are worth one-thousand words. This photo (on top) could rival War and Peace, containing slightly north of one-half million. We’ll save viewers lots of time by offering highlights. • Year: 1906 • Event: Bricking Bluffton’s Main Street for the first time • Location: Looking south on
The first-ever diesel locomotive passed through town on a test run By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Remember seeing your first-ever electric-driven vehicle in Bluffton? Compare that to the following image: It passed through Bluffton in an unusual color scheme (reddish-orange) blasting a very foreign sound (a “hoarse” whistle). Bluffton residents witnessed the beginning
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com If you lived in Bluffton during the summer of 1947–76 vacations ago–chances are your vacation plans were announced on the front page of The Bluffton News. And, if you don’t believe this, simply scroll to the bottom of the feature and see for yourself. You will discover the vacation plans of over 50 Bluffton families. This became a
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton. It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those accounts follow Betty’s. The accounts in this feature are from the mid-1940s. Betty, whose nephew