Christian Strenge's FrakturFull color illustrations of "Vorschrifts," "tauf scheins," family records, "liebebriefs," religious texts, bookplates, etc., showing his work. Christian Strenge was born in Germany in 1757 and by the late 1780s was living in Hempfield Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa. He was a schoolmaster, scrivener, and justice of the peace before his death in 1828. Strenge's fraktur is one of the finest examples of Pa. German folk art. (24pp. color illus. East Petersburg

It examines ways progressive Mennonites have slowed their absorption into American culture

a complicated romance

Ellenberger

Undocumented tradition tells us that as many as eighty persons worshipped in this cave as the waterfall overhead drowned out the singing

Also included are chapters on her bout with cancer and her adoption story

and photos from the past 25 years

his wife Martha Reigart Sellers

most unavailable today in original form

2011 reprint

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" The story is set in 1983 on the Schlank farm near Reading

Volume IV of this Fretz Family History does not duplicate the first three volumes but rather adds to them with additional Fretz history