A few more photos from Jordi Busque, this time of an Old Colony Mennonite school Jordi visited while in Bolivia.
Mennonites are a diverse group.
They include everyone from “modern” Mennonites who live in cities and have professional careers, to Old Order Mennonites and Old Colony Mennonites, who live Plain agrarian lifestyles with limited technology in many cases.
Old Colony Mennonites
Stephen Scott on the Old Colony Mennonites:
People known as Old Colony Mennonites occupy large tracts in the state of Chihuahua near Cuatemoc and Casas Grandes and in Durango.
These German-speaking people ...
Raber’s Almanac
A while back I wrote a post on Raber's Almanac, an annual guide used by the Amish.
The Almanac includes an extensive listing of Amish church districts and their ministers. It ...
Old schoolhouses Continuing our look at relics of the past, the one-room schoolhouse.
I think the country schoolhouse definitely fits the category of cultural items that have come and gone in North America ...
Any color you like…
photo: Randall Persing
'You can have any color you like, as long as it's black'. So said Henry Ford, perhaps mythically, about his quintessential Model T auto.
If you're an Amish woman, ...
Does anyone really care about beards? Donald Kraybill on writing the Concise Encyclopedia We use them all the time, but ever wonder how reference books and resources get put together?
In a guest post today, Donald Kraybill offers a peek into the writing and ...
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