Reviewed by Lauren Canaday Meet the author at the bottom of this review -
What do you get when you combine themes of philosophy, morality, socioeconomics, the after-life, the human soul, and... fart jokes?
You get the television series The Good Place!
The series has a stunning 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (with seasons two and four both at 100%), and takes viewers from laughing to crying to laughing again amid plot twists that would usually leave you biting your nails in anticipation of the next season.
Our Swiss Connections feature on Bluffton Icon started on Nov. 12, 2020, and have continued each week. Here is the index of the eight columns posted this year and the link to those columns for persons interested.
Johannes Geiger was 44 years old when he brought his wife, Barbara (Walti) and their five children, John, Verena, Barbara, Peter and Anna, from Canton Basel, Switzerland in 1835.
Johannes’ parents, David Gyger and Verna (Steiner), as well as Barbara’s parents, Nicholas Walti and Christina (Badertscher), remained in Switzerland.
Reviewed by Craig Hoffman
While life in 2020 has been full of masks, social distancing, and isolation, there will be a time soon when everyone will party again. Here are ten songs to help you plot out your return to real life and the dance club scene.
How are you going to enjoy your return to everyday life in the near future? Let the Icon know in the comment section!
Why is there a “curve” on Bentley Road just north of Bluffton where the road crosses Riley Creek?
There’s also a curve on Tom Fett Road and on Phillips Road at about the same location.
On Phillips Road it's a serious twist, instead of being just a curve in the road. That’s because the Tom Fett and Bentley “jogs” have been modernized. Phillips remains the same at it was when it was originally laid out.
The simple answer to the question in the opening sentence is that the earth is round and that the early surveyors were trying to run straight lines on a sphere.
We have identified our community as Swiss pioneers, but find many of our ancestors came to American from France and we need to go further back in our history and find the reasons.
When our Swiss pioneers lived in Switzerland, many were persecuted because of their religious belief.
