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13-Year-Old Ian: Not Quite a Bar Mitzvah

13-Year-Old Ian: Not Quite a Bar Mitzvah

by MarianBeaman | Oct 7, 2020 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Coming of Age, Family / Nostalgia, Nostalgia, Reflection, Uncategorized

Ian Christopher Beaman Born in 2007 2 pounds, 5 ounces Now age 13 Strapping young man, full of vigor, praise God!   A precarious beginning, indeed Our fourth grandchild appeared unexpectedly in early October, on his mother’s birthday, not as anticipated in early...
Grandpa Sam’s 80th Birthday Party

Grandpa Sam’s 80th Birthday Party

by MarianBeaman | Sep 16, 2020 | blog, Coming of Age, Family / Nostalgia, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia

Great Grandpa Sam, born in 1863, was honored with a party for his 80th birthday. My great grandfather Samuel Brinser Martin’s birthday party was even written up in the Middleton (Pennsylvania) newspaper. I don’t know whether my family was invited to the...
The Astonishing Story of Little Ruby Bridges

The Astonishing Story of Little Ruby Bridges

by MarianBeaman | Aug 19, 2020 | blog, Coming of Age, Conflict, neighborhood, popular culture, Uncategorized

Little black girl Smartly dressed in white Beginning first grade in New Orleans   Who is Ruby Bridges?   Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African American girl, is pictured on her first day of class at the William Frantz School in New Orleans, Louisiana....
Mennonite Daughter: Creating a Book Trailer

Mennonite Daughter: Creating a Book Trailer

by MarianBeaman | May 27, 2020 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Coming of Age, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Quotations, Uncategorized

What happens after a festive book launch and a fruitful book tour? Mennonite Daughter is still peddling. The Story of a Plain Girl is still logging “book-mobile” miles. But now she has a book trailer!   A book trailer helps build hype for your book. It interjects...
Cherries in the Snow

Cherries in the Snow

by MarianBeaman | Mar 4, 2020 | blog, Coming of Age, Family / Nostalgia, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia, Uncategorized

March weather in many parts of the world is temperamental, alternating between tempestuous and tranquil, hence the saying, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb!   A. E. Housman alludes to ambivalent March weather in his poem, Loveliest of trees,...
Playing Word Games with Marian and Jill

Playing Word Games with Marian and Jill

by MarianBeaman | Nov 13, 2019 | Coming of Age, Family / Nostalgia, Memory, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore

The blurb on the back cover of Mennonite Daughter begins:  What if  the Mennonite life young Marian Longenecker chafed against offered the chance for a new beginning?   It continues: What if  her two Lancaster County homes with three generations of family were...
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