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The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

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Description for The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition Paperback. A personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. Num Pages: 192 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; BGA; HBTB; HRCC99. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.

A rare memoir of growing up Old Order Mennonite

Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion.

This poignant story is told in three books: book 1 describes her youth in a farm community on the outskirts of Columbiana, Ohio; book 2 follows the struggles of Ayers as she tries to fit ... Read more

Ayers recounts how the Old Order Mennonite Church came into existence. Her personal account begins when she was eight years old, watching as her mother took care of her sick father. With intelligence and insight, Ayers describes how her family coped with the burden of not having enough income, which meant that the children were expected to work instead of getting an education. When secular educational leaders closed the one-room schoolhouses that served her Mennonite community, Ayers relates her difficulties trying to fit in at the public school and how she and her siblings were required to fail classes so that they would be expelled. It concludes with reflections on what all this meant to her.

A rare and moving memoir, Rolling Down Black Stockings is also a valuable piece of social history that will appeal to historians as well as those interested in separatist communities and women's studies.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873388283
SKU
V9781559362412
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Tina Landau Anne Bogart
Esther Royer Ayers received a B.S. in biology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has published short stories, fiction, and another nonfiction title, A Heritage That Money Can't Buy: My Growing Up Years as an Old Order Mennonite (1998). She worked for Astra Zeneca International, a pharmaceutical company, before retiring to Hudson, Florida

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