A Mennonite bedroom is very minimally furnished. Its purpose is resting. Life is lived outside or in shared spaces with family or the community.

A horse and carriage is the main form of transportation. They are, however more quiet than you would expect because their axles are from old Mexican Volkswagens.

Abram (Junior) & Aaron Schmidt.

Abram Schmidt at breakfast on Sunday before going to church.

The Mennonites make their own clothes but the choice of fabric is limited and the pattern or even the pleat width of the skirts is precisely prescribed.

Every Saturday afternoon a Mennonite woman‘s hair is freshly combed and styled.

Apart from the Bible, the other important book is the songbook „Morgenlieder“ – also in Low German.

Children attend daily prayer before and after school.

Boys after work in the bean field.

Agatha with her cousin.

A new tractor will have its wheels removed and replaced by steel wheels which the Mennonites make themselves.

A girl harvesting beans in the field. Children work together for other families or landowners and normally get paid on a piecework basis.

Men in a hardware store.

Mennonites help each other. Sometimes bringing money to relatives in need.

A shop by night.