[October 22, 2012]    

Saturday afternoon Debra Senger, aka Blossom Huffman, spent the afternoon at Hallie's on the downtown square in Lincoln.

Blossom is the great-grandmother of restaurant owner Brian Huffman, and she was there to help Huffman celebrate 10 years in business.

Senger is no stranger to the role of Blossom. She appeared three years ago at a Mill celebration along with Coonhound Johnny and entertained the crowd with stories of The Mill and its notoriety gained by having patrons such as Al Capone.

Before and since that time, Senger has done a great deal of research on Blossom, and continues to do so.

Pictures by Nila Smith

Blossom waves a friendly hello to everyone coming in at Hallie's.

She also spent time visiting with patrons while they dined.

 

Remembering the days of "theme night" at The Mill, Blossom brought a sombrero that patron Tim Becke got a real kick out of wearing.

And Blossom just couldn't resist putting her "flirt" on with tourism director Geoff Ladd.

 

Blossom gives a hug to great-grandson Brian Huffman, who owns Hallie's. She's also holding a piece of Stetson china. Another piece of her past is that she was an employee at Stetson for many years.

Some of the photos Ladd shared with Brian and Blossom. The top left picture is of the original schnitzel. Today they look much the same as they did back then.