The photos below of the Zimmerman-Willems family and the
earlier one of Maria Dyck Zimmerman have been published by the California
Mennonite Historical Society in their Fall 2013 Bulletin. They accompany an article I wrote about the
Heinrich H. Zimmerman 1905 Zionsbote
letter. It was mailed out last week and
can also be read on their website at the link given below. This is an excellent publication, and back
issues are well worth reading. They
include not just individual life stories, but articles by Mennonite historians
and scholars as well.
The article in the CMHS Bulletin is short, only 2000
words. The full story of Heinrich & Maria Dyck Zimmermann is
posted on the Pages section in the column on the right. All it requires is a “click” to bring it
up. Also in the “Pages” is the story of Heinrich H. & Elisabeth Boldt Willems
Zimmerman.
While I’m at it, I’ll include a link to another published
piece I wrote that can be found online—“Jacob
& Agnes,” the story of my father’s courtship and elopement with my
fourteen year old mother and the scandal that ensued. It was published in the January 2012 issue of
the Journal of the Center for
Mennonite Writing at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.
