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  The Old Order and the Beachy Amish continued to share the meetinghouses in Flag Run and Summit Mills on alternate Sundays until 1953, when the Beachy Amish constructed a more modern building.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I am grateful for Annie Tipton at the Shiloh Run imprint of Barbour Publishing for receiving my original proposal for this series positively and shepherding it through to publication. JoAnne Simmons, coming alongside me in the details of the manuscript, is incredibly smooth to work with. My agent, Rachelle Gardner, rallies to the sometimes obscure things I like to write about. I was especially enthused about writing Amish stories firmly rooted in historical events, and having companions on the journey made it that much easier.

  In the writing of this book, I was especially grateful for people I’ve never met but who have taken great care to preserve pieces of Amish history and make them available for me to find easily in the age of the Internet.

  The Historian, a publication of the Casselman River Area Amish and Mennonite Historians out of Grantsville, Maryland, yielded several rich, specific articles: “History of the Amish Mennonites in the Forks of Garrett County, Maryland” (October 2001) and “Church History in the Summit Mills Area” (January 1998), both by David I. Miller, and “The Preachers’ Tables” by Joanna Miller (January 2004). The September 1986 issue of Mennonite Life gave me “Memories of an Amish Childhood—Interviews with Alvin J. Beachy” by Robert S. Kreider. Alvin was the son of Bishop Moses Beachy and his wife, Lucy.

  The Small Archives Collections of the Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana, turned up an interview with Henry Yoder from June 2000 (transcribed by Dennis Stoesz) recounting his understanding of the events that led to the split between the Old Order and Beachy Amish. Henry was the grandson of Moses and Caroline Yoder.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Olivia Newport’s novels twist through time to find where faith and passions meet. Her husband and two twentysomething children provide welcome distraction from the people stomping through her head on their way into her books. She chases joy in stunning Colorado at the foot of the Rockies, where daylilies grow as tall as she is.

  OTHER BOOKS BY

  OLIVIA NEWPORT

  VALLEY OF CHOICE

  Accidentally Amish

  In Plain View

  Taken for English

  AMISH TURNS OF TIME

  Wonderful Lonesome

  Meek and Mild

  Brightest and Best Coming Soon!

  Hidden Falls

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