Perhaps nowhere else is the word Footprints more apt than in the case of Mennonite history on Pelee Island. For a brief time, these Mennonite families were part of the life of Pelee Island. They lived there, raised their families, sent their children to school on the island, made their living on the land and called […]
An Eventful Day in an Eleven-Year-Old Boy’s Life During WWII
Author: Jake Harder, 2008 It was early March 1945 after one month on the ’Trek’ when we stopped at a small village in East Germany to rest. My mother, my sister and I shared a wagon with my uncle and aunt, their three children, my grandmother and another aunt. We traveled together since my uncle […]
Story about Abram Epp
Story Told At Men’s Breakfast Read more about Abram Epp here. My father-in-law, Abram Jacob Epp, weeded quickly around the tomato plants, so he had time to talk. He pulled out pigweed, bindweed, night shade, and grass like a whirlwind, chopped the purslane and chickweed with a swipe of the hoe, and came over to […]
