Shirley hershey showalters blush a mennonite girl meets a glittering world sings the song of her early life as a mennonite girl in 250 pitch perfect pages born into a family of lancaster county swiss mennonite parents the author recounts the story of the first 18 years of her girlhood on an 100 acre dairy farm in the 1950s and early 60s the book delivers in its promise to play out her memories of school church and home the three legs of my childhood stool as . Blush a mennonite girl meets a glittering world showalter shirley h isbn 9780836196269 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Blush a mennonite girl meets a glittering world paperback illustrated september 19 2013 blush a mennonite girl meets a glittering world paperback illustrated september 19 2013 by shirley showalter author 42 out of 5 stars 149 ratings see all formats and editions. Its about a young girl raised in a mennonite community during the 1950s and 60s who chooses to live in the secular world while still maintaining a strong faith and a love for her people shirley hershey grew up on two farms that both her mother and father worked her father came from a fairly restrictive mennonite family while her mother came from a more liberal one that her parents found a way to make differing backgrounds work is a testament to their love for each other their family . Blush a mennonite girl meets a glittering world shirley showalter paperback list price 1599 individual store prices may vary description i promise you will be transported says bill moyers of this memoir part mennonite in a little black dress part growing up amish and part little house on the prairie this book evokes a lost time in lancaster county pennsylvania when a