Strasburg Landis Museum

Once a year the Landis Museum holds ‘Harvest Days’. Over eighty skilled artisans demonstrate Pennsylvania German crafts and there are all kinds of living history activities going on…such fun!

This little girl is a Mennonite child….one of the ‘plain people’. I was just fascinated watching her and her little sister, try on old fashioned fancy bonnets. Playing ‘dress-up…the joy of it!

When she is older she will wear a white cap over her hair, just as her mother was wearing. But for now her mama just laughed and seemed delighted to see the wonder in her child’s eyes, while she played with a hat that in the ‘real world’ she could never wear.

Unlike the Amish, the Mennonites do use cameras. I’ll be sending the family this picture of the sunshine that is in Esther’s smile.10_06_esther

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