Just Plain Wrong

This week, the MennoBrarians chat with Karen Johnson-Weiner about her book, The Lives of Amish Women. The book captures the diversity of the experiences of Amish women, with Johnson-Weiner's research relying heavily on correspondence and interviews with members of Amish communities. We chat about her research, her friendships with Amish women, why there hasn't been much research published on Amish women and much more! We really enjoyed The Lives of Amish Women and recommend you add it to your reading lists if this is a subject that interests you. Note: The audio for this episode is more "echo-y" than usual due to Karen needing to record in an unexpected location (a stairwell!). Thank you to Johns Hopkins University Press for providing us with review copies of the book.  Links: Lives of Amish Women [https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12251/lives-amish-women?srsltid=AfmBOor92t6kG5PeLI9__xYR69-pNz7T0MlQdINJQYQ8XU435Uqs_Lmn] Karen Johnson-Weiner's website [https://www.potsdam.edu/about/directory/faculty/johnsokm] We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod [https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod] or buying merch at TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/user/plainwrongpod] Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod [https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ [https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/] Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ [http://plainwrongpod.com/] “Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal. Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams.

This week, the MennoBrarians chat about the movie "Holy Matrimony," a 1994 comedy movie starring Patricia Arquette and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In the movie, Patricia Arquette's character, Havanna, is unknowingly dragged into a Hutterite colony by her boyfriend Peter who she is forced to marry, and then after Peter dies in a car accident days later, she must marry Zeke, Peter's 12-year old brother per the rules of the colony. If you think that's weird, just wait til you hear us break down the rest of the plot! We do a very detailed plot recap, and chat Hutterites (who, for the record, do not believe in Levirite marriage), state and county fairs, and what on earth this movie was trying to do.  You can find Holy Matrimony streaming on YouTube.  We also reference the podcast How Did This Get Made? that does an episode on Holy Matrimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQbY4byIUo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQbY4byIUo] (or you can find wherever you get your podcasts).  We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod [https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod] or buying merch at TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/user/plainwrongpod] Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod [https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ [https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/] Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ [http://plainwrongpod.com/] “Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal. Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams.

This week, we chat with Eric Bradley, our friend, colleague, and the new Head Librarian of the Mennonite Historical Library (MHL). We chat primarily about genealogy and genealogy research, but also touch on MHL resources, Eric's faith journey, and much more. Some of the genealogy resources mentioned in this episode:  * Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association https://www.saga-omii.org/ [https://www.saga-omii.org/] * Grandma Online: https://grandmaonline.org/gmol-7/login.asp [https://grandmaonline.org/gmol-7/login.asp] * Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/en/united-states/ [https://www.familysearch.org/en/united-states/] Mennonite Historical Library website: https://www.goshen.edu/mhl/  We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod [https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod] or buying merch at TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/user/plainwrongpod] Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod [https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ [https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/] Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ [http://plainwrongpod.com/] “Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal. Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams.

This week, the MennoBrarians draft poets! Specifically, Mennonite poets, or poets we make the case are close enough to Mennonite to count as Mennonite poets. We chat about the history of Mennonite poetry, share the bios and snippets from our favorite poems, and chat about our own poetry phases - including Abby doing a special reading of a poem she wrote as a tween, Snowflake, Snowflake.  Draft picks:  1. Patrick Friesen, "The Moon in the Streets" (Tillie) 2. Kate Baer, "Life a Wife" (Abby) 3. Julia Kasdorf, "The Mennonites" (Erin) 4. Carrie Newcomer, "I Believe" (Erin) 5. Jean Jantzen, "Wild Grapes" (Abby) 6. Jeff Gundy, "The Cookie Poem" and "How to Write the New Mennonite Poem" (Tillie) 7. Yorifumi Yaguchi, "Gravestones" (Tillie) 8. David Wright, "A New Mennonite Replies to Julia Kasdorf" (Abby) 9. Ann Hostetler, "Iconoclast", and also editor of A Capella, an anthology of Mennonite poetry Honorable mentions (we cut this portion of the podcast for time, but want to still give these poets a shout out!) - Jesse Nathan (Erin) - Daniel Shank-Cruz (Tillie) - Dennis Hoffman (Tillie) We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod [https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod] or buying merch at TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/user/plainwrongpod] Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod [https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ [https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/] Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ [http://plainwrongpod.com/] “Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal. Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams.

This week, the MennoBrarians chat about Charlos Whittaker's book Reconnected, a memoir about giving up technology and living with Amish for several weeks. We chat about the early days of cell phones, Carlos' experience with the Amish, which bits of his advice we liked, and much more.  Carlos Whittaker is a christian social media influencer, speaker, author, and podcaster, who promotes ideas related to faith, politics, mental health and well being, and dialoguing with those that disagree with us. You can find him @loswhit, and his book, Reconnected [https://www.powells.com/book/reconnected-how-7-screen-free-weeks-with-monks-amish-farmers-helped-me-recover-the-lost-art-of-being-human-9781400246465], wherever you like to get your books.  We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod [https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod] or buying merch at TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/user/plainwrongpod] Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod [https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ [https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/] Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ [http://plainwrongpod.com/] “Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal. Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams.