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
Who, What, and Where is “Streich”?
I’d never heard of “Streich”. Until I began frantically trying to visit every single public cairn and cemetery listed in the Historical Atlas of the […]
Family History Comes Alive in Neubergthal: An Interview With Jamie Karr
For most of us, our grandparent’s old homes and farmsteads cannot be visited, as they’ve been either torn down or have new owners… but in […]
Buffalo Trails & Very Old Trees Alongside Historic Stony Brook
I’ve amassed many Preservings issues from the past… and somewhere, sometime when I was paging through one, I came across a snippet, labeled “Steinbach Creek.” […]
Tannenau, Bogs, and Rogue Cows
On a Saturday in September, Andrew and I went on a hunt for extinct villages with the makers of the Historical Atlas of the East […]