Center for Mennonite Writing

CMW Journal

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  Menno Pause Revisited

  by J. Daniel Hess

  In this memoir, derived from personal experience,Hess gives a personal—yet restrained and reportorial—account of a crisis at Goshen College that has become legendary among students.

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  Daddy’s Girl

  by Shirley H. Showalter

  Showalter's narrative of her early teenage encounter with her father amid tobacco culture among Lancaster County Mennonites is densely personal, cultural and literary.