Thoughts of Peace and Dirk Willems in Steinbach
This past Saturday, I went to the unveiling of the Dirk Willems statue at the Mennonite Heritage Village. To be honest, I hadn’t realized this […]
Places
Mitchell Was Once Vollwerk. (That’s A Recent Discovery Of Mine.)
You probably already knew this, but it was news to me. I was minding my own business, reading the Historical Atlas of the East Reserve, […]
A Virtual Tour of Chortitz, SK (Wymark) With Tracey Neustaeter
Up until embarrassingly recently, I didn’t really know about the Mennonite villages of the Canadian prairies. I grew up here on the East Reserve, where […]
Today It’s Randolph, But Back Then It Was Chortitz.
I think Randolph was the first Mennonite village that I ever heard about. When I was little, a friend from school lived there. The first […]
Well, Visiting Kleefeld Was A Bust…Historically-Speaking
Look at this historical sign! Look at it! I attended Kleefeld School from Kindergarten to Grade 9, and over that decade spent a fair bit […]