A Mennonite fever-dream: aboard the Russlaender 100 train in B.C.
It was like a Mennonite fever-dream. And at this point I’m just trying to make sense of it all. Did this really happen? (Continued from […]
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The Russlaender 100 Tour takes a train through the Rockies!
(Continued from this post.) I awoke with a start. Everything was silent and still. I was in a cocoon. My head, foggy. What time was […]
The Russlaender 100 tour goes to Alberta
(Continued from this post.) “Alberta bound, Alberta bound… it’s good to be, Alberta bound…” This charming, welcoming song is really quite the earworm, and I’ve […]
I cannot start at the beginning: The Russlaender 100 Tour visits the Ukrainian Heritage Village
You know how many (a GREAT many) family history books in the Mennonite vein begin with the history of anabaptism? Um, I’ve never read those […]
What Happened: The Russlaender 100 version
(Featured photo: Dave Toews was good enough to take this picture for me upon our arrival at the Ukrainian Heritage Village near Edmonton, and no […]