Mennonite Life

Our friend Joel Horst Nofziger at the Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville recently wrote this piece regarding Mennonite attitudes towards the American Revolution for Anabaptist World. Lancaster County Mennonites historical tidbits can be found in this article.

Scenes from a revolution | Anabaptist World In 1782, as the American Revolution was winding down, a group of travelers arrived in Coventry, Pa., and stopped at the home of Mennonites Jacob and Susanna Longacre, begging for a meal.

Last week we had the pleasure to host a group of wonderful visitors, the Palatines to America German Genealogy Society, who held their Annual Conference in Lancaster this year. Representatives visited both the Collections Building and Visitors Center, digging through our library and archives to find ancestors and relatives.