Waterloo, Ont.
Music and readings liberally salted with anecdotes was the fare served up at the Sound in the Land book launch last month in the Conrad Grebel chapel-along with lots of Mennonite food.
Music ranged from "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne, sung by soprano Stephanie Kramer, to "Aunt Lizzie's Old Order House," written and sung by Rebecca Campbell. The latter was contextualized with a set of artifacts that would appear in a typical Old Order Mennonite house, including a marble roller.
The 2004 Sound in the Land festival and conference held at Conrad Grebel marked the first time that Mennonites, in their 300-plus years of being in North America, gathered …
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