We'd love some feedback on this episode. This one is so special to us! We hope you are as encouraged by this amazing story of a simple woman as we are. ❤🧡
I thought it was very interesting as well! History is very precious and we can learn so much from our own families that have gone on before us. I’m so thankful for my Christian heritage. ♥️
Loved this episode and all the others! Your guys have such a good dynamic and always bring an interesting perspective on the topics you discuss which i am grateful for.
We have this book on our shelf! My husband read it to our girls for their bedtime story and i read it later. I had no idea you ladies were in that frendschaft! One of Annie's grandsons, Lester and Martha, are part of our church. He's a retired pastor and still preaches at times. Love how you value your heritage.❤
I bought this book when you talked about it on the podcast a few months ago and have been making my way, slowly, through it. It is very interesting. I was not raised in Lancaster County but married into a Mennonite family. We now attend an Evangelical church, but the history in this book is fascinating and has helped me understand many things regarding the Mennonite customs and faith that I have long been curious about. Thank you for delving into the book a bit today and sharing your thoughts. I enjoy your podcast discussions and look forward to the release of new episodes. I appreciate your honesty regarding your background/heritage.....the good, the bad and the ugly. It has been a Herculean task to integrate into the culture of Lancaster County over the past 42 years . You are both putting forth an effort to be kind and gracious to "outsiders" and I applaud you. I would love to meet you both one day.
I so enjoy your visits, discussions. I ordered the book earlier and was slowly reading it. My son is in the hospital with a severe case of ulcertive colitis in the colon. At almost 89, I am staying with him. He is on a liquid diet to help heal and has had one blood transfusion which has helped and getting good care. Would appreciate prayers. I brought the book with me and am on Chap 23 and am thoroughly enjoying it. So thankful her husband was considerate and aware of her needs..Thank you for this program and making people aware of life in those days and the author's very clear explainations and descriptions.
Wow,.....first of all, thank you both for giving us such a good glimpse of your history! My story is so different. I'm a mennonite young woman too, but my parents and grandparents are from Russia. I'm born in Germany and living now for 18 years in Bolivia. I heard that the mennonites wore black on weddings because in times, where it was forbiddend living out there faith and have weddings they could quickly make it look like a funeral when the soldiers came to check up there ceremony. My grandparents weren't oldoder mennonites. My grandmother's both lived out there faith in Jesus as most as possible but my grandfathers both were communist. So it was really hard. But the prayers of my grandmothers were answered one day, and there husbands came to Christ too. My moms side of the family still has only a few people who are Christians. But on my dad's side, all his siblings are believers, and most of there children too. Diving in the history of the mennonites is very interesting but sad at the same time. Now here in Bolivia are so many of the oldorder mennonites and most of them do not believe in the power of the Gospel and that the blood of Jesus is enough to save them and be sure about salvation. They are make so much effort and "hope" they can make it to heaven one day...but the truth is, if we could make it through our own good works, why would Jesus suffer and go on the cross? My brother and some other siblings in Christ made a app where they read bible stories in low german, so they can understand what is written in there. Because they read it in German but can't understand what they are reading. So we have a big work to bring them to Christ. Please pray for all the mennonites here, that they would hear and understand the gospel!
Reading the book would be interesting but I'm not a great English reader. Many things are so similar to my story and many are very different. 😉 God bless you
So true. Actions are louder than words. The statement, “do as I say, not as I do” does not work. Kids will become as they see, our actions form their personalities.
I'm the oldest of 8 and brought up strict dutch, and there's 18 years in between me and the youngest. A lot of care for my younger siblings became my responsibility, which at the time I wasn't always so thrilled about, but now I love the connections I made with my younger siblings while I could been out at parties I was looking after my little siblings and now I'm so thankful I never experienced normal teenager life
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. I love learning about the different cultures that make up our country and world. Thank you both for such an interesting vlog!
Love this episode. Sure want to read this book. I recognize so much in all you talk about. Even though I am not a Mennonite, but from a different religion, but it is almost all the same! You two are so inspiring, thank you for all you do❣️
I had to laugh at your description of tourist watching you mow your yard, that’s the way I feel here in Juneau, Alaska….the summer is all about the THOUSANDS of tourists every day and I feel the same way…like I’m a zoo attraction is some way!
👵💜 Most of us grew up hearing stories of our families. You are lucky someone wrote about how life was.I will be eighty the end of June and I can see how life has changed during my lifetime. Thank you for sharing with us and giving us things to think about.
I absolutely LOVE mowing grass! Girls, y’all CAN learn to mow on a riding mower, or even a zero turn! They are SO fun! I’m 63 years old, and have mown grass since I was old enough to do it. I’ve used all kinds of mowers, from push mowers, to self propelled, riding mowers, and now the illustrious Zero Turn 😂. Give it a try!
I like to mow, it’s a chance to get a little bit of exercise. I don’t mind hauling in firewood but I hate taking out the trash. Not sure why, but it’s some thing I very rarely do. My grandson interviewed my mother, who is 90, asking her about her life when she was his age, which is nine. She talked about her life from childhood until now. The interview lasted about an hour, thankfully it was recorded. It was nice to hear stories directly from her.
My grandmother was born in 1883. My grandfather was born in 1873. We have a lot of history covered in just 3 generations! My mom inherited my grandmother's cookbook. It was an old International Harvester catalogue that was covered with recipes that had been cut out of something else and pasted in the catalog. No rhyme or reason. Meats were with pies and canning info and casseroles. It was a book that you just had to get to know in order to find anything. But it was a treasure for us. We learned what a slow oven was, how to make biscuits with sour milk, all kinds of historical tidbits. I believe one of my sisters has the book now. It's falling apart, but still a treasure. Interesting what we can learn about our family through a cookbook.
I found your stories from the past fascinating. My life in the uk is so different to yours. The one thing we have in common is we are Christians , its wonderful to be in God's family. A worldwide family. We will spend eternity together. Now that will be interesting 🙌
This episode is really sweet. It's heartwarming to see you talk so passionately about the people and events that shaped you both, even though they are so far removed from today.
Great episode - looking forward to reading the book. I think it's so interesting to see what a woman's role is during different time periods. My grandmother was a young woman during the 1920's and 30's and it was a challenging time. Everyone had to contribute financially to help the family survive. My mother raised her family during the late 50's until the early 70's and being a "stay at home wife" was a financial option then. Which she did until we were older and then went to work. I raised my kids is the late 80's through the early 2000's and I and most my friends found part-time work until our kids were older and then worked full-time Now, both my daughter and D-I-L have their full-time careers and are great mom's and wives. (But boy their lives are busy.)
I grew up in Delco county. My mother was fascinated with Amish and Mennonite culture. We would drive to Lancaster county almost every other weekend. I loved growing up seeing your culture but my mother never explained your love for God and Jesus. I came to find Jesus when I was 27 now I am 30. So happy to have found you both. I will purchase this book ❤
Love mowing on my latest zero turn mower that hubby bought a few years ago on Mother's day weekend!!! ( I have used zero turn for 15-20 years, easy peasy!! ) I tell him its my mower-I enjoy mowing, get away from phone and customers!!
What a cool thing to have so many recorded stories of your family. It makes me want to start writing more things down throughout my life to share with future generations
Hi Ladies, I really enjoyed listening all about your ancestors it was so interesting, I use to love listening to my grandma about her life in service in the big houses and my dad use to teach me old songs which I have passed down to my granddaughter. Thank you for sharing an insight into their lives xx
OH MY!! I have that book ,read it years ago,I was also so sorry when it ended! now I need to dig it out again ! John Martin's meats was my dad's cousin 😂 BTW I Love mowing! It takes me 2 hrs with our zero trun!😅
I ordered the book, I’m excited to read it as I love writings about families and culture. I also like to read about strong women and the way they lived so her story sounds very interesting.
This was so interesting! I love hearing about the lives and the history of ordinary people! Also, I've been researching my own family history a bit and I could relate to some of the things you said. For example, my great great grandparents moved to my hometown from another part of the county and in the 1851 census there is a 12 year old servant listed as staying in the house. She was obviously there to help following the birth of a baby since they were quite a poor family, my great great grandfather being a tobacco clay pipe maker. There were no relatives nearby to help because the family had recently moved there from quite a distance. I always find these episodes very interesting and the variety is also nice.🙂
Fascinating discussion! I read the book years ago. You mentioned John F. Martin. He was my great uncle...fun fact: his middle initial was actually "W" but he chose "F" since that wasn't as common and people would know for sure who he was!
How wonderful to have the stories of your great great generation! I would totally have read that 4 times too Megan! And it was a great episode for sure. Love hearing this stuff
Oh yes..love to mow yard! 🤩 I used to mow with a walk behind and now use a zero turn mower..it took a little to get used to but love it now! Y’all should try it you might get hooked. 😅
My grandparents were German speaking Lutherans in MN. My grandpa was beaten in school for not speaking English. When world war 2 came, that's when church services and hymns switched from German to English. The hymnals I grew up with still had a German index in the back for hymn names. So much can change in one generation!
It was very interesting to listen to this podcast. My husband's aunt did one for the Miller family and yes it was very interesting the stories that people contribute to it. My cousin on my real mother's side did some historical digging on the Hege family and did a special tour to some special places in Franklin County that has important stories linked to the Civil War. Even a house that was in the Hege family that President George Washington slept at!!! Keep up the good job... ladies!!!
👵💜 I grew up in a small town in WV. After I married, and had three children I was living in a smaller town in OH. It was easy maintaining a Christian lifestyle. When my children were ages 11, 8 aand
I will have to say I love Beverly Lewis's books foremost and only. I know she has heritage in Lancaster PA so I think that helps so much. Her books always make my heart feel tender & love the history of the Amish. I have never been able to stomach any other author's stories on the topic though. Very interested in the book of your great great grandmother, wow!
My girls are 10 and 17 and we still love reading aloud in the evenings. (We are currently reading Christy) I am going to order this book for us to start next. 🙂
I purchased this book a while back and am enjoying it! It was interesting that you family was living in Wakarusa, In. A friend of my mothers now lives there. Evaporated milk and corn syrup was normal when I was a baby...
Mowing used to be my favorite chore in Pa , it was my alone time 😊now in the Midwest with three hours worth of mowing with a big zero turn I wish my children were still home to mow .I have Annie’s Day of Light book ! Really enjoyed it . I need to read it again because I forgot the story . Both my parents grew up raising tobacco, but they didn’t when they married , I believe my maternal grandfather raised tobacco until he retired. In our community Old Order M. stopped farming tobacco in the late sixty’s early seventies. I believe it varies from community to community. I’m so so thankful for the vaccines an antibiotics we have now a days !
Enjoyed the chat. I grew up in the same neighborhood of John and Lydia Rutt. I remember her funeral. There is book about the history of John F. Martin Meats. Probably Could be purchased at Clay book store..
I absolutely love hearing people's family history and stories. This was such a great episode. Your great-great-grandmother Lydia dated 40 guys?? I married the only one I dated and can't imagine!! I am glad to know which conference of Mennonite you guys come from, since I have wondered as a Mosaic Conference (formerly Franconian Conference) member. My church has where half of the members raise their hands in worship because they came from an Evangelical background before becoming Mennonite, and the rest don't. I never felt comfortable doing that, but I do sway to music a bit when we sing. I wonder if my best friend's sister-in-law's family comes from the same conference as your family, as they live in the Lancaster County area and dress old order style. I'll have to ask her. She was the first Mennonite I had ever met (back in 1998 before I became one). I can't believe some of the Mennonites back then were moonshiners and grew tobacco! I love learning about the huge families too. My maternal grandmother's family came from PA and always had large families too, but they were Baptists rather than Anabaptists and probably went to the Revival tent meetings that your great-great-great grandma Annie would have attended. Anyway, LOVE this. I am curious about the book now. I love reading books about real Anabaptists (mainly missionaries), but this was a missionary within her own family, which is also so needed and beautiful!
Oh I love to mow. With a John Deere zero turn. I probably would hate push mowing too. Never had to do that. My boys like mowing too and now that schools out I dont mind letting them so i have more time for other things. You should get your boys to mow. I mowed grass since I was like 7. I've seen that book around... thought it looked boring but now I want to read it!! That's crazy y'all are related to my brother-in-law but I guess with 15 children the ancestors would spread far and wide for sure.
Interesting how it looks like (from a Bird's eye view), God trying to get Elam's attention and almost turning him over to his sin the way he went from riches to rags.
On the topic of confinement before delivery, my understanding was that the six weeks before your due date, you are more likely to go into labor and no proper lady with any decorum would want to have her waters break or be doubled up having contractions, out in public, for all to behold. It simply was not done. Now.... In the church I grew up in, a few ladies went into labor while at services .. which led to a quiet admonition that the last 6 weeks of pregnancy, it would not be frowned upon to simply not be at services. 😂 A few of the men were traumatized I think and the older women felt that perhaps the olden ways might serve the younger ladies better 🤣
@@MsSarah999 I never said they shamed them... I think it was actually very wise to encourage them to stay home, because prior TO that, it was kind of expected that if you weren't at death's door, you should be on a bench and a lot of members showed up sick and with sick children. Rest is also important. The old ways aren't always bad, some actually make sense.
I think if you ever did a similar show it would be helpful to give an advance notice that it was coming along with an opportunity to order and read the book. Readers are much more invested in the characters and story that way and could resoond better to your sharing. Not a criticism. It was interesting. Personally I would just prefer it after reading as opposed to before reading.
Can you guys talk about how you taught your kids to read? I have my girls in French school but we are English and I need to make sure they learn how to read over the summer with me in english. I havea 5 and 6 year old. Any help would be so appreciated!!
I was curious if their children’s names/ children’s spouses names are in the book! I have my husband’s Burkholder ancestry up to his great-grandparents. Would be neat if you all shared an ancestor. :)
The six weeks ‘confinement’ after birth reminds me of a story about my maternal great-grandmother. She lived in Brittany, here in France, and was very Catholic. After giving birth, women were supposed to wait outside the parish enclosure for the priest to bless them so that they could return to Mass. After one of her pregnancies, she thought her priest was dragging on too long, so she went into the church and sat in the front row. My mother often says ‘no one could have stopped Mam Goz from going to pray, not even the priest!’
I am 70 and the stories that my Grandmother told me are so much the same as you state here. Her nephew fell getting off a school bus and bruised his leg. Gangrene set up and they cut his leg off on his mother's dining room table. Our kids have no idea about past struggles. Regarding emotional religion, read the book of Acts. Thank you for sharing
Wow! I could relate to bygone times so well! My grandmother had 16 children & all of them made a contribution to the area. They were educators, missionary doctors, served in organizations like YMCA, & their footprints are all over our state. My grandfather was a preacher. Many of them cast a long shadow over many lives & I am so thankful for my many uncles & aunts & cousins. Your story has triggered my memories. My generation is slowly fading away. The next generation( my children) knew both grandmothers very well as they lived with us in TN. Thanks for sharing Annie’s story. I will buy the book.
I throughly enjoyed this! Family stories and history should be passed along. I believe my Gr Gr Grandpa Martin may have been that bishop. At least I know he struggled with the split.
Love this episode! One of my ancestors founded the Weaverland Mennonite church. We might be distant cousins! I will definitely be buying the book. I love local history and finding the connection between genealogy and old buildings. I recently bought an old Cigar Factory in Bowmansville (now Bowmansville Vintage) and then found out I am the 6x great granddaughter of the founder of the town and distant cousins with some of the previous owners of the building.
I bought the book! I can't wait to read it!!! I'm not Mennonite or Amish. My mother "loved" the Amish and the "simple" life. My nine siblings and I were raised with similarly conservative Christian values. She collected a few little cast iron Amish figures depicting Amish life. I inherited them and her appreciation for Amish and Mennonite life and values. We lived by prayer. 🙏 Fun fact, my dad was a Pilgrim Holiness preacher and held revivals. I agree. These stories are treasures and so inspiring.
This was very interesting, I'll have to look for the book. My husband is a Burkholder but I have no idea if there's a connection. He comes from a branch that moved to Indiana. I'm 61 and also never cared for mowing. I feel like I'm the odd one out, so many Mennonite women love to mow! Three years ago we bought a zero turn and I don't mind quite as much. I do the majority of it.
Very inspiring episode! I love that annie didn’t nag her husband over his bad habits. She had a servant’s heart and that’s a beautiful thing to give to your spouse! Thanks for sharing ladies ❤
