I had fallen into thinking that Mennonite and Amish were diverged branches of the same original sect, but when you mentioned the names of the founders my brain kicked in and i remembered that i'd known about them at some point in the dim past. Coming from Central Pennsylvania, it's easy to see them as having a shared history since the lines between them are so blurred -- stories of women marrying outside an Amish community and so just becoming Mennonites instead, and so forth.
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Date: 2014-08-28 01:37 am (UTC)I love your trip reports.