The Petals of a Kansas Sunflower: A Mennonite Diaspora by Melvin D. Epp PDF

By Melvin D. Epp

instead of pledging allegiance to the army attempt as dictated through Prussian legislation in 1867, many religious Anabaptists deemed it prudent to turn into pioneers in Kansas. The yr was once 1876 and bizarre numbered sections of railroad land have been being advertised by means of the Santa Fe throughout Kansas. cities constructed round teach depots; neighborhood procuring turned on hand. Marie tougher Epp was once born in the USA to those relocated Anabaptists. She used to be a Kansas Mennonite farmer and likewise the village poet. Her poems, written for oral supply, inform the tale of existence in Holland and West Prussia following the Reformation, the relocation to Kansas, and the production of a church neighborhood at the tall grass prairies. A church used to be equipped to concentration those hard-working Germans on divine realities as they buried their lifeless, married their younger, and handled the tough prairie winds. Marie’s poems additionally describe the changeover from buggies to automobiles, from German to English, and from isolation to international outreach. With time, the Anabaptists discovered via cultural variation that they can be either staunch Mennonites and likewise patriotic Americans.

“Epp weaves a desirable montage of news, photographs, and private recollections that body the amassed poems of his mom, a outstanding and robust lady who, as a farm spouse at the Kansas prairies, reared 8 childrens and nonetheless came across time to mirror at the rugged attractiveness and the folks who surrounded her. Her poetry offers ‘a face and a center’ to the days, the group, and the land either she and Melvin enjoyed so evidently.”
—John Yoder, vacationing Professor of schooling and management, jap Mennonite college

“Marie more durable Epp skilled just about all of the 20 th century from an analogous Kansas farmhouse the place she used to be born. Her notable bilingual poetry harnesses a robust, strong prairie voice that transports the reader right into a girl realm of kinfolk, farming, weddings, births, and funerals that marked the which means of her days and of ours. Melvin Epp has translated and wrapped her poems within the context and relationships that illuminated her phrases and her rural world.”
—Mark Jantzen, Professor of heritage, Bethel College

Melvin D. Epp is a retired study scientist and has back to his roots in Kansas. His is the writer of the thing “The history of a backyard: Replicating a West Prussian backyard one of the Tall Grasses of Kansas,” which was once released in Mennonite lifestyles (2008).

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