My Hutterite Life

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Summary: Delightful and informative book
Review: My Hutterite Life by Lisa Marie Stahl is a delightful book. Lisa began writing columns for Montana newspapers as a young Hutterite teenager. She quit writing for publication(temporarily, I hope) when she married a man of her faith and moved to Canada at the age of 20. This book is a compilation of some of her columns which explain the lifestyle of Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious group who live on communal farms known as colonies throughout the prairies of the US and Canada through the eyes of a teenage girl.

Many of us see them often, in their distinctive costumes in the local stores or medical offices and wonder about what their life is like. It seems to be very much hidden and Lisa's book begins to open the door of understanding.

She has a natural gift for writing and I hope she will at some time in the future be able to share her gift with the public again.

If you are interested in religion or agriculture or cultural anthropology you will enjoy this book.