HARLEYSVILLE Enjoy farming, food and fun at the 50th Annual Apple Butter Frolic at the Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville on October 7. In a press release, the Center detailed the event, featuring farming demonstrations, delicious traditional foods, children’s activities and time-honored crafts. Attendees can watch how to harness a horse for farm work, […]
For Susan Rhodes, a congregant of over 50 years of a Broadway-adjacent Mennonite church, the place has always been a hub for her family and social life, in addition to
Harrisonburg, Dayton and surrounding towns have a large population of Mennonites making up their communities. The Breeze talked with several people in the faith — here s how their history affects
This is a story about massacres that occurred in Southern Ukraine between 26th October and 7th December, 1919. The victims, avowedly-pacifist German Mennonites, included several women and elderly people; in Eichenfeld, almost one third of the village population was killed, including a 65 year-old blind woman. All the massacres occurred in the vicinity of the Makhnovist army. And then, after six weeks, they stopped.