Mennonite Daughter: The Story of a Plain Girl - Paperback

Beaman, Marian Longenecker: - Marian Longenecker Beaman is a former professor at Florida State College in Jacksonville, Florida. Her memoir, Mennonite Daughter: The Story of a Plain Girl, records the charms and challenges of Mennonite girlhood in mid-twentieth century Pennsylvania. The writer's formative years coincided with the decade before which the Lancaster Conference of the Mennonite Church experienced major change, especially regarding dress code for women. Such is the backdrop for the story of one Mennonite girl who benefited from a sheltered life with boundaries, but who bucked church tradition along with coming to terms with an adversarial relationship with her father. She shares her story to preserve these memories, the bitter with the sweet, and to leave a legacy for future generations. One of Marian's stories, "Gutsy in Ukraine," was published in My Gutsy Story Anthology by Sonia Marsh, September 2014. Another story, Making Love Edible, appeared in the Food and Faith issue of The Mennonite, September 2016. The Jacksonville Arts and Antiques magazine published a personal profile in the December 2018 issue. Her memoir was featured in the National Association of Memoir Writers' Virtual Book Club, 2019. The author writes weekly on her Plain and Fancy blog: https: // marianbeaman.com. She lives with her artist husband, Cliff, in Florida, where her grown children and grandchildren also reside.