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GALLERY SPECIAL EXHIBITS

Quilt Makers: Vintage Pieces of Love May 15 to October 31, 2009

Meet the creators of many vintage bedcovers in our collection.

Growing Corn: Early Tools and Equipment 2008 -

Exhibit includes more than one hundred hand corn planters plus husking pegs and related equipment used by pioneers. From the collection of Ted Sommers.

WEB CHANGES

This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, look here first.

4/27/2005 Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly Twenty-Five Year Index 1974-1998 linked to Publications page

RECENTLY ADDED BOOKS FOR SALE

C. Henry Smith Speech at the first homecoming celebration of the old Partridge congregation near Metamora on August 20, 1940. Published by Ken Ulrich. 32 pp. $3.50.

C. Henry Smith Revisited, Session 1, "Always an Amish-Mennonite Farm Boy," and Session 2, "Premier Mennonite Historian—Master Story Teller," Dr. Robert Kreider's addresses to IMHGS on September 15, 2002, on DVD. $10 (our cost).

These and other books may be ordered from our Publications page.

ILLINOIS MENNONITE HERITAGE QUARTERLY contents

VOL. XXXVI, #1, SPRING 2009

Better Cows, Stronger Community? Mennonites and the Production Revolution in the Corn Belt by Debra Reid.

Developing the Esch Storyline : Organizing and Developing Information by Tom Esch.

Book Review: Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, Rudy (Henry) Wiebe. Reviewed by Gerlof D. Homan.

Photo Essays: Andrew Litwiller (1863-1891), Samuel Garber (1863=1930), Benjamin Ropp (1848-1919), Lydia Ropp (1852-1932) by Walter Ropp.

Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly 2009 Index.

Permission Policy.

VOL. XXXV, #4, WINTER 2008

The Ancestry and Ministry of the Bishop: Peter Zehr (1851-1922) by Donna Schrock Birkey.

Baptisms at East Bend Amish Mennonite Church 1895-1919 Church Book of Peter Zehr.

Researching My Esch Family in Central Illinois and Europe by Susan Esch Lees.

Daniel Esch Family Genealogy by Susan Esch Lees.

Book Review: John D. Roth, Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be by Gerlof D. Homan.

VOL. XXXV, #3, FALL 2008

Transplanted German Farmer: The Life of Christian Iutzi (1899-1857), Immigrant to Butler County, Ohio, in His Own Words by Neil Ann Stuckey Levine.

VOL. XXXV, #2, SUMMER 2008

A Letter Newly Discovered in France: Rodolophe Petter to Pierre Sommer by Neil Ann Stuckey Levine.

Aunt Lulu's Scrapbook: C.H. and Mary Imhoff Smith by Roger Ulrich and Joan Stohrer, editors

The Bishop's Furnishings: Four Side Chairs Belonging to Peter Zehr and Barbara Heiser by V. Gordon Oyer.

"I Shall Not Pass This Way Again" Memories of my Father, Peter Zehr (1851-1922) by Amelia Zehr Birkey.

Book Review by Rosalee Otto. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Don B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zuercher.

VOL. XXXV, #1, SPRING 2008

Moody, Fundamentalism and Mennonites: The Struggle for Particularity and Engagement in Illinois Mennonite Churches, 1900-1955, Part 2 by Elizabeth Miller.

Amos and Bertha: A Tribute by a Niece by Ruth Hieser Oyer.

Book Review Gerlof B. Homan. A History of the Amish by Steven M. Nolt.

Yordy Addendum: French Birth Records and Ancestory of Peter Yordy by Gary L. Yordy.

God's Back Pastures: Rural Evangelism and the Metamora Mennonite Church by Steven R. Estes.

2007 Index Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly