Looking For My Grandmother in “Adventures of a Mennonite”
What happens when you’re desperate for stories but running out of sources? Well, if you’re a Mennonite, you can search for books written by folks […]
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100 Years of New Bothwell, 145 Years of Kronsthal
This past year, New Bothwell celebrated 100 years. That’s kind of weird to me, because this community has existed here since 1874. Mind you, it […]
A Never-Before-Seen Pic From My Grandparents’ Wedding Day!
When I was a girl, I spent many many hours with my paternal grandmother on our family’s Kleefeld dairy farm. Milking cows. Pitching straw bales. […]
Seeing the INSIDE of Willow Plain School — FINALLY!
Back in January, I posted about visiting the OUTside of Willow Plain School. Yep, just the outside of the building. Because even though this is […]
Blumenhof School and the “Here-I-Am-ers”
Blumenhof was settled in 1875 (a year after Blumenort) but was also one of the first to end village life, by 1889. However, unlike other […]