Downtown Steinbach, or MHV Museum?
So, last month, The Guardian published an interview with Miriam Toews, which featured a photo with this caption: “Steinbach Manitoba, the Mennonite town where Toews […]
Places
We Were Unable To Find Burwalde’s Cemetery
(Feature photo: where Burwalde used to be. I guess. Andrew took this photo from inside the car. I’m sorry for the bug guts on the […]
Reading Shirley Hiebert’s Book, ‘Trüdyt’s Daughter’
Lately, I’ve been reading Shirley Hiebert’s book, Trüdyt’s Daughter: A Mennonite Woman’s Memoir. This vivid, unflinching account takes us from the east end of Steinbach […]
Mitchell Was Once Vollwerk. (That’s A Recent Discovery Of Mine.)
You probably already knew this, but it was news to me. I was minding my own business, reading the Historical Atlas of the East Reserve, […]
A Virtual Tour of Chortitz, SK (Wymark) With Tracey Neustaeter
Up until embarrassingly recently, I didn’t really know about the Mennonite villages of the Canadian prairies. I grew up here on the East Reserve, where […]