by MarianBeaman | Dec 11, 2019 | blog, book review, Education, Family / Nostalgia, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Quotations, Uncategorized
What do Fred Rogers, Ruth Graham, Eva Kor, and I have in common? Read on to find out! During the 2019 holiday season, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” has played in theatres all across the nation. The movie is a tribute to Fred Rogers, the legend of children’s...
by MarianBeaman | Dec 4, 2019 | blog, Christmas, meditation, Mennonite History, Uncategorized
Dr. Benjamin Vogt, my instructor in a Family History course I took in 2015 via publishing entrepreneur Jane Friedman, is a poet, gardener, and author of creative non-fiction. With his permission, I am printing this poem from the collection entitled...
by MarianBeaman | Nov 20, 2019 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Conflict, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Mennonite History, Quotations, Tips, Uncategorized
Writing memoir is like “dis-robing in public,” says one author, but only if you are brave enough to include the hard parts, I say. After my memoir launch on September 14, many details of the first 24 years of my life became public. I voluntarily exposed my self...
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...
by MarianBeaman | Oct 30, 2019 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia
I’ll go first: Now it’s your turn!
by MarianBeaman | Oct 23, 2019 | blog, Education, Family / Nostalgia, Memory, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Uncategorized
Aunt Ruthie’s 1945 Diary tells stories of her daily life, but it also holds clippings of other things, like a bee swarm . . . Cartoonists of this era tried to cram lots of action into one scene. Here’s a detail: ...
