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Title:

MennoFolk2 : a sampler of Mennonite & Amish folklore / Ervin Beck, editor.

Publisher:

Herald Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

247 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Mennonites--United States--Folklore.
United States--Folklore.

Other Authors:

Beck, Ervin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228).

Contents:

Preface / Ervin Beck. Preface / Ervin Beck -- Alice Ipps and Sammy Blitz / John Liechty -- Nicknames in the Lockport church / Marilyn Graber -- Arthur Emmert's horse-trading stories / Martin Franke -- Amish powwow accounts / Phyllis Miller -- Low German insults and proverbs / Julia Friesen -- Lyal Steckly's homesteading stories / Jeanette Moreau -- Mennonite foot-washing accounts / Peter Blum -- Three Amish folktales / Reba Smoker Beeson -- Three generations of Frey auctioneers / Joy Frey -- Allen White's bedtime stories / Jane Hiebert-White -- Courtship stories / Leah Mullet Hershberger -- Adoption stories / Marcy Leaman Sims -- Summer camp skits / Paula Brunk Kuhns -- SST stories / Gina Leichty -- Howell House lore / Ann Helmuth Leaman -- College pranks / Chris Cummings -- Alice Ipps and Sammy Blitz / Ervin Beck.

ISBN:

9780836193077
0836193075

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61455050

LCCN:

2004007090

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)