Bristol, Indiana Heritage Society

10/01/2026

For those of you who missed last night's September monthly meeting of the Bristol Indiana Heritage Society (BIHS), here are two important pieces of information:

(1) OUR MONTHLY MEETING TIME WILL BE CHANGED to 5:00 pm beginning with our October monthly meeting on Oct 28th. Meetings will still be held on the last Wednesday of each month at the Bristol Public Library (cookies and coffee included).

(2) At our September meeting last night, we watched an engaging (and recent) conversation with John Nymeyer from his perspective on growing up in Bristol. You can view the full conversation on our YouTube channel using this link. Be sure to watch the section about a children’s book he wrote about bullying.

09/26/2026

This is a reminder that our BIHS (Bristol Indiana Heritage Society) monthly meeting will be held at the Bristol Public Library this coming Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 6:00 pm.

Capturing and preserving the rich stories of Bristol and its small-town life over the years with video is what we do.

Our program will be a video conversation with John Nymeyer, long-time Bristol resident, student, and teacher. Believe me, you will not want to miss this!

Hope to see all of you there!

08/23/2026

This coming Wednesday evening, August 26, 2026 we will have our monthly BIHS meeting at 6:00 pm at the Bristol Public Library.

The topic(s) will be "Zimmys Tavern" with Donna Roderick, and an update on the Bristol High School Alumni Association from Carleen Sigsbee, if she is available.

We hope to see you all there!

07/29/2026

Zimmy's Memories: Pink Mosier tells an interesting story of his grandfather, Horace Mosier, and his good friend, “Zimmy” (of Zimmy’s Tavern.) It was about a botched newspaper ad that became a popular item for a long time.

Even though this Facebook post is not shareable (because this is a private group,) the link to the YouTube video is. Just copy & paste the link to the video and send to your friends!

Pink Mosier tells an interesting story of his grandfather, Horace M...

07/27/2026

Just a reminder... there is no meeting this week of the BIHS...Our next meeting is Wednesday August 26th at 6pm... at the Bristol Library... hope to see you there.

07/12/2026

We have decided to cancel our July meeting of the BIHS due to multiple scheduled family vacations and conflict of timing with the Elkhart County Fair...hope to see you at our next meeting which will be Wednesday August 26th..6pm at the Bristol Library..

06/25/2026

We had a good crowd at last night's BIHS monthly meeting at the library to watch Chuck Feldman's stories of lighting the fireworks each year, and to share everyone's memories of past Bristol Homecoming festivals. This is the video we watched of Chuck and his son, Tom, talking about doing fireworks for the festival since 1971. Our monthly meetings are always held on the last Wednesday of each month at the Bristol Public Library at 6:00 pm. All are welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCquF5a4Txk

06/22/2026

Please join us, at the Bristol Public Library, this Wednesday June 24th for our monthly meeting. Meetings are held at 6 pm in the Sherwin-Sanger meeting room. This months topics will include memories past and present of the Bristol Homecoming. Hope to see you there....

04/30/2026

We had a great monthly BIHS meeting last night! As part of our video series, "Bristol Memories," Ed Hackman recounted some of his memories of growing up in Bristol.

We are arranging for many others to share their memories in this way so that we can build a repository, or library, of memories to create a larger documentary that tells the story of Bristol.

It is our way of preserving small-town life through the memories of people who experienced it, and through the stories about those who came before them and had a great influence on our community.

Sometimes "seeing" is better than "reading," so here is a shortened video version of what Ed Hackman recently shared with us.

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04/26/2026

Our next monthly meeting will be this coming Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 6:00 pm at the Bristol Public Library.

The topic will be “Ed Hackman’s Memories of Bristol” as part of our current series.

Our meetings are held on the LAST Wednesday of each month at 6:00 pm. The place we meet is the Bristol Public Library in the Sherwin-Sanger History & Meeting Center.

As always, we continue to collect stories of Bristol with text, photos, and short videos to be shared with the public. Please come, relax, and learn about growing up in the small town of Bristol, Indiana from your friends.

If you believe that preserving and passing the stories of Bristol forward to future generations is essential for their growth, please come to a meeting and see what we are doing!

While you are waiting for the Wednesday meeting, please visit our YouTube Channel and have a look around.

At the Bristol, Indiana Heritage Society: 1. We believe that documenting our community's story is the best way to know who we are and where we came from. 2. We make our beliefs come alive by collecting photographs, video and audio stories. 3. Then, by the way, we share all of these resources with yo...