A Social History of Hesse: Roman Times to 1900A pictorial comprehensive history of how people lived, worked, ate, and housed themselves in all areas of Hesse, Germany, including Hesse Nassau, Rhineland Hesse, etc. Focusing on the common citizens, not the kings and princes, this is an excellent interpretation of life among the Germans who settled in Pa. Topics: life in the small villages, Protestant Reformation impact on life on the land, Thirty Years War and its hardships on the common folk,

Families: Blough

and Mary Ada

Early families included Bauer

Subtitled "Conversations with a Radical Tradition

bushels of wheat and Indian corn

tensions with worldly values and outsiders

The first section is about the early settlers

nearly two decades of undeserved suspicion

is ushered into the spare room to leaf through the pages of her treasured scrapbooks

Miller is a descendant of Peter Miller (1756-1818) and Mary Stutzman

Henrich Clemmer arrived in Pa

Where did she find the strength to continue when her personal world caved in and collapsed