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Tickets on sale: Library Tea, Oct. 27

Got tickets? The Friends of the Library Autumn Tea will be held from 4:30-6:00 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27 at in the Richland Room in the lower level of the Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main.

A formal English-style tea will be served including finger sandwiches, scones and dainty desserts on fine china.

The event includes live entertainment by the Rainbow Dulcimers and a Silent Auction of interesting books and other items.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Bluffton Public Library. All proceeds benefit the Bluffton Public Library.

Findlay author with Bluffton ties has humorous view of growing up in the '50s and '60s

By Paula Scott

If you met author Barbara Lockard during the years she worked in Bluffton for Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, you might not even know that she is a writer. You might not know that she is wickedly funny–and I don’t mean that in a Halloween sense.

But you will have your chance if you come to hear Lockard and her sister Karen Striet at noon on Tuesday, October 25 at the Bluffton Public Library. A resident of Findlay, Lockard spent the first year of the COVID andemic writing on her blog, “Old and Slow and Turning White.” I’ve laughed aloud many, many times at the memories–often fond and always cynical–that Lockard writes about.

Steiner asks "If Bluffton is a Swiss community, where are the mountains?" in library presentation

If Bluffton is a Swiss community, where are the mountains? is the topic of a presentation given by Fred Steiner at 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 17, at the Bluffton Public Library.

The talk explores the background of Swiss immigrants who settled the rural area between Bluffton, Pandora, Columbus Grove and Beaverdam, beginning in the 1830s.

In a PowerPoint presentation, Steiner will share stories and photographs of some of these first settlers. He will also provide some of the reasons that the Swiss left Europe for America.

Galley book group reading Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon

The Bluffton Public Library's new Galley Book Group will meet in person on Wed., Oct. 19 at 12:00 to discuss the advanced reader (galley) version of Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon, slated for publication in January 2023.

This is a new discussion group that will be held as new galleys become available.

The group will receive the book in advance, read it and meet for a discussion. A feedback survey will be filled out by the library and sent to the publisher.

October Beanstack reading challenges: Fall into Reading, Hallow-Read

The library has two Beanstack reading challenges for October in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month Challenge continuing through October 15. 

Fall Into Reading and Hallow-Read both begin on October 1. Whatever your reading interest, there’s a challenge for you!  We challenge our patrons to read during the month and keep track of their reading on our Beanstack site at http://blufftonpubliclibrary.beanstack.org. Happy reading, Bluffton!

Fall storytime continues at Bluffton Public Library

There are three ways to sign up for Fall storytime at Bluffton Public Library:

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