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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Includes three boxes of research, correspondence, manuscripts, and other notes pertaining to Louise Stotlzfus’ work and particularly her work on Amish and Mennonite women. In the first box there are materials relating to Amish Women and Two Amish Folk Artists as well as a few short stories and lectures she gave. Folders 50-53 in Box 1 are communications Stoltzfus exchanged with people either through email or letters. Boxes 2 and 3 focus on Quiet Shouts with Box 2 containing general information and Box 3 focusing on specific women featured in the book.
Collection Historical Note
Louise Stoltzfus was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was raised in an Old Order Amish family. A freelance writer and editor, she was the author of several books including: The Central Market Cookbook, Traces of Wisdom, Amish Women and the Pursuit of Life's Simple Pleasures, Plain Business, Recipes from Central Market, Lancaster County Cookbook, Favorite Recipes from Quilters, A Quilters Christmas Cookbook, The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals, The Story of Philhaven, Two Amish Folk Artists: The Story of Henry Lapp and Barbara Ebersol, and Quiet Shouts: Stories of Lancaster Mennonite Women Leaders. Stoltzfus was the former curator of The People's Place Quilt Museum and director of the People's Place Gallery, Intercourse, PA. In the 1970s, she taught in a one-room Amish school for three years. Stoltzfus earned a degree in English literature in 1987 from the University of Southern Florida. She was a member of Blossom Hill Mennonite Church.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Earl H. and Anita F. Hess Archives and Special Collections
Acquisition Source:
Transferred with Donald B. Kraybill Papers
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Good Enterprises, 1984-1996
- Tourism/publishing/real estate company in Intercourse that filed Chapter 11 of bankruptcy in July 1996
- Item 1: Tourism/ publishing/ real estate company in Intercourse that filed Chapter 11 of bankruptcy in July 1996, late 1996-1997
- Folder 2: Good Enterprises - Listening Committee, late 1996-1997
- Folder 3: Philadelphia Food Press, Dec. 1996
- Folder 4: Simple Life Cookbook Proposal, 1997
- Folder 5: "The Grace of Sharing Food and Faith", 1995
- Virtue Magazine article
- Folder 6: Amish Women - Correspondence, 1994-2001
- Folder 7: Amish Women - News Articles, 1995, 1996
- Folder 8: Amish Women - Reviews
- Folder 9: Amish Women - Quiet in the Land, 1998
Speech about Amish Women given at Millersville Conference, no date [I think 1995]
Article “From Anna Baptist and Menno Barbie to Anna Beautiful” by Julie L. Musselman, fall 1998
- Folder 10: "Meet Me on the Côte d'Azur", 1997
- Folder 11: "Searching for Harmony", 1997
- Folder 12: Traces of Wisdom - Hypertension Press Catalogs, 1998
- Traces of Wisdom: Amish Women and the Pursuit of Life’s Simple Pleasures published 1998
- Folder 13: Traces of Wisdom - Contract, 1996-2000
- Folder 14: Traces of Wisdom - Notes
- Folder 15: Traces of Wisdom - Reviews
- Folder 16: Traces of Wisdom - Fan Mail, 1998
- Photos, flyers, correspondence
- Folder 17: "My Turn", 1999
Newsweek- Common Sense
An opinion piece, rejected from publication
- Folder 18: Lapp/Ebersol Correspondence, 1986, 1991, 1994
- Folder 19: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit, 1995
- Exhibit on Henry Lapp and Barbara Ebersol
- Folder 20: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit - Artifacts
- Folder 21: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit - Insurance
- Folder 22: Lapp/Ebersol Exhibit - Publicity
- Folder 23: Lapp/Ebersol News Stories, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1994
- Regular and news print
- Folder 24: Lapp/Ebersol "Two Amish Folk Artists", 1995
- Folder 25: Barbara Ebersol Special Papers
- deeds, wills, etc.
- Folder 26: Henry Lapp Special Papers
- deeds, wills, patent, etc.
- Folder 27: Lapp/Ebersol Amish Art for Landis Valley Museum, June 20, 2001
- Folder 28: Country Amish Doctor, Lehman, 1998-1999
- Stoltzfus helped with this project
- Folder 29: "Lucky in Love", 1998
- Folder 30: Research - Amanda and Mary: Mennonite Women in Love, 1998-1999
- Mary lived from December 3, 1867 until January 22, 1958
- Folder 31: Research - Musselman, Amanda
- Amanda lived from October 17, 1869 until June 17, 1940
- Folder 32: Mennonite Women - PA Mennonite Heritage
- Folder 33: Mennonite Women's Calendar, 1984-1986
- Folder 34: Research - Homosexuality
- Folder 35: Research - Orlean, Susan
- Folder 36: Research - Taylor, Florence Starr
- Folder 37: Notes from Interviews, 1996
- Folder 38: Lecture - Annual Meeting Lancaster Menno. Conf., 1999
- Folder 39: Lecture - Women's Fall Fest, 1999
- Mennonite Women
- Folder 40: Lecture - St. Mark's UCC/ Lebanon, Dec. 1999
- Folder 41: Lecture - Willow Valley - Donna Albert, May 2000
- Folder 42: Lecture - Business and Professional Women, 2001
- Mennonite Women
- Folder 43: Lecture - Willow Valley, 2002
- Folder 44: Lecture - Red Rose Quilt Guild
- Folder 45: Book Promotion/Media Contracts
- Folder 46: Writing Business Letters
- Folder 47: Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- Folder 48: Hemmingway on Writing
- Folder 49: Voice - Reflections on Writing
- Folder 50: Kasdorf, Julie, 1998-1999
- Folder 51: Kraybill, Donald, 1997-2002
- Folder 52: Lantz, Jonathan, 2002
- Folder 53: Waxman, Scott - Literary Agent, 1995-1998
- Folder 54: Obituary and Funeral, 2002
- Box 2
- Folder 1: MB Beginnings Records
- Folder 2: John A. Lapp on Menno. Women, March 22, 1998
- Lecture at Lancaster Conference
- Folder 3: Menno Women Conference, 1999
- Laurelville, PA
- Folder 4: Menno. Women Reprints
- Folder 5: Women in Love and Bishop Board, 1998
- research notes
- Folder 6: Elderhostel Talks, 2001, 2002
- Talk from 2001, Mail from spring 2002
- Folder 7: Quiet Shouts - Proposal
- Herald Press
- Folder 8: Quiet Shouts - Contract, etc
- Folder 9: Quiet Shouts - Introduction or Chapter 1
- Folder 10: Quiet Shouts - Correspondence, 1996-1999
- draft reviews, fan mail, notes from telephone conversations
- Folder 11: Gonzalez, Mercedes
- Brooklyn, NY
- Folder 12: Siegrist, Joanne Hess
- Another female author writing about Mennonite Women
- Folder 13: Steffy, Mildred, Oct 4, 1997
- Interview
- Folder 14: Wenger, Chester and Sarah Jane, Sept 22, 1997
- Telephone Interview
- Folder 15: Quiet Shouts - Mennonite Women's Spirituality Chapter
- Folder 16: WILS Display
- Women in Leadership Subcommittee, No date
- Folder 17: Quiet Shouts - Final Edit on Manuscript
- Folder 18: Quiet Shouts - Reviews
- Folder 19: Trivia on Women Leaders/Paul Zekr
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Quiet Shouts - Bair, Esther Mellinger
- Known as the founder of the Hinkletown Mennonite Church
- Folder 2: Quiet Shouts - Book, Miriam
- Missionary teacher around the world, served on the General Board
- Folder 3: Quiet Shouts - Breneman, Janet
- Missionary teacher in Honduras and in Guatemala City
- Folder 4: Quiet Shouts - Brown, Lena Horning
- Somalia and Grantham, PA
- Folder 5: Quiet Shouts - Charles, Sylvia Shirk
- Alsace region of France and Goshen, Indiana
- Folder 6: Quiet Shouts - Good, Minnie Eberly Holsopple
- Akron, PA
- Folder 7: Quiet Shouts - Lauver, Mary Hottenstein
- Puerto Rico and Akron, PA
- Folder 8: Quiet Shouts - Leatherman, Catherine
- Bukiroba, Tanzania and Mount Joy, PA
- Folder 9: Quiet Shouts - Mellinger, Lydia Stauffer Sauder
- Millersville, PA, Children’s Home
- Folder 10: Quiet Shouts - Nikiema, Mattie Cooper
- West Africa and Philadelphia, PA
- Folder 11: Quiet Shouts - Nissley, Libby
- Mount Joy, PA
- Folder 12: Quiet Shouts - Shenk, Jean Kraybill
- Hospital chaplain, Mount Joy, PA
- Folder 13: Quiet Shouts - Yoder, Phebe Ethel
- Kenya; Mugagno, Tanzania and McPherson County, Kansas
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