Concensus and dissent, persistence and rapid change were at the heart of Yarrow's rich cultural life.
These tensions, especially the inevitability of assimilation, walked hand in hand with the young pioneer settlers born in Russia and the next generation born in Canada. There was no possibility that the new generation would be absorbed into a Russian colony ethos or would move elsewhere in order to perpetuate it.
Those who grew up in the early years of this community cannot go home again save in memory; the memories of a way of life and its webs of relationships and their meanings will probably die with that generation or those just a few years younger. Village of Unsettled Yearnings harnesses these memories to the surviving records and gives words to them.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index
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- 971.1/37
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- V55 2002eb
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Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Acknowledgments 7
- Preface 8
- PART ONE: A CULTURAL MURAL OF MENNONITE YARROW 12
- Rites of Dying, Death, and Burial 13
- Midwifery: A Ministry 24
- Living East of Eden 39
- The Early Years of the Mennonite Brethren Church 45
- History of the Yarrow United Mennonite Church 55
- The Foreign Missionary as Hero 61
- Reflections on Growing up as a Pastor's Daughter 73
- Peter Daniel Loewen and Religious Education 81
- We Dare Not Lose Our Language: The German Religious School 86
- Glimpses of Elim Bible School, 1930–1955 91
- "They Had to Learn to be Canadian": Carl Wilson and the Yarrow Mennonite Community 98
- Yarrow's Soldiers 106
- Common Cause: Abram and Anna Wiens and the Mennonite Relief Centre 117
- Displaced Lives: Influx of European Refugees after World War Two 124
- Artisans and Art 132
- "Pick the Berries, Don't Paint Them": The Odyssey of Three Artists in a Mennonite Lotus Land 141
- A Community of Verse 151
- The Dynamics of Business in Yarrow 159
- Our Raspberry World 176
- Hop Season 186
- The Everydayness of a Dairy Farm 195
- Recreation Among Young Mennonites in Early Yarrow 203
- PART TWO: A GALLERY OF SKETCHES AND TRIBUTES 210
- Recollections of Ethel Irene and Edith Caroline Knox 212
- From Generation to Generation: The Hooges of Yarrow 219
- Pioneers Johann and Susanna Braun 226
- Dietrich and Anna Friesen 231
- Gardening as Beauty and Love: Aron Dietrich Rempel 235
- "Widow Epp" 241
- Building the Community; Exploring the World: Julia and Jack Wittenberg 248
- Move the Choir to the Centre of the Chancel: George Reimer and Choral Music 255
- Music for Life: Walter and Menno Neufeld 265
- Heinrich Friesen, Violin Maker 273
- "I Was Left Alone with My Little Children": Elizabeth Wall 281
- "A Dream Come True": Frida Nachtigal, First Mennonite Teacher 287
- Building a Life through Necessity: Cornelius Regehr 292
- Anna Bartsch (1897–1989) 297
- Take Counsel from Strength and Duty: Agatha Klassen 301
- M Hank 309
- Yee Fong 316
- Yarrow's War Dead 325
- Conclusion: So Close, So Far Away 343
- Endnotes 347
- Bibliography 354
- Notes on Contributors 367
- Photo and Map Credits 372
- Index 374
- Names 374
- A 374
- B 374
- C 374
- D 374
- E 375
- F 375
- G 376
- H 376
- I 376
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- M 377
- N 377
- O 378
- P 378
- Q 378
- R 378
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- Topics 380
- A 380
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- F 380
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- H 381
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