Work Paper #17 (April 1975)

Work Paper #17 (April 1975)

Contains the following articles: “A Visit to a Russian Collective” by Peter J. Klassen; “Wedding Bells Ringing-Skeletons in Closets Jingling” by Reuben Goertz; “A Russian Description of the Foreign Settlements in South Russia in 1820” by Norman E. Saul; “The Volga Germans in Colorado and their Languages” by Brian A. Lewis; “A Volhynia Mennonite Letter of Attestation” translated by Victor A. Reisig; “Report from Germany” by Emma S. Haynes; “Historical Sketch of St. Peter’s Parish and the Founding of the Colonies of Rastadt, Katharinenta and Speyer in Saskatchewan” by Rev. Father H. Metzger, translated by A. Becker and Sister Bernadina Kletzel; “Villages in Which our Forefathers Lived: Alt-Schwedendorf, Alt-Danzig and Josefstal” by Adam Giesinger; “The Germans from Russia in Hastings, Nebraska” by Dorothy Weyer Creigh; “A Visit to Steinbch” by Delores K. Schwartz; “Additions to the Loan Collection”; “We Proclaim it Now” by Timothy J. Kloberdanz; and the “Genealogy Section”