Back Porch Memories
Family Stories and Diaries of
Harry Zimmerman Rutt
Ida Musselman Nolt
By
Harry W. Rutt
Back Porch Memories opens a window into the lives of two ordinary people who lived through extraordinary circumstances. They lived through: World Wars, depressions, major Church splits, the death of 3 children and numerous illness and plagues. Ida kept a daily diary for 30 years of the mundane chores and significant milestones in the Rutt Family and community. Follow her life as she, “Baked 28 pies, it took nearly all day” to her last entry where she cooked another meal of mush for her family and got ready to go to the hospital where she died.
Back Porch Memories is also a commentary on the Weaverland Mennonite Conference, also known as "Black Bumpers.” An appendix provides commentary into the church’s struggle to accept the “machines” (automobile).
"The Cadillac of Family History Books" - Amos B. Hoover, Muddy Creek Farm Library.
240 pages Illustrated
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