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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 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
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