A community of memory
Subtitle: my days with George and Clara
By: Jeff Gundy.
Series: Creative nonfiction; Creative nonfiction (Urbana, Ill.)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Gundy, George Ilive, 1880-1951 -- Family.; Gundy, Clara Strubhar, 1885-1979 -- Family.; Gundy family.; Strubhar family.; Mennonites -- Illinois -- Genealogy.; Illinois -- Genealogy.
Description: Using family photos, records, recollections, and historical research, Gundy follows seven generations through time and space: from Bavaria and Alsace to Ohio to Illinois in the 1830s; from frontier dwellings with dirt floors to homes with refrigerators.

He also follows them intellectually, from a strict to a broader interpretation of religious doctrine in the 1870s, which led to a schism within the already small Mennonite community; from a longstanding position on pacifism and conscientious objection to some questioning of this stance during World War II.