The 1719 Hans Herr House, Lancaster County's oldest surviving structure, is the setting for this historical fiction about a young Mennonite boy. Eighteenth-century Christian is assigned to stoke the fire, tend the animals, collect the eggs, weave a basket, and shell corn while waiting for his father to return from Philadelphia.
The 1719 Hans Herr House, Lancaster County's oldest surviving structure, is the setting for this historical fiction about a young Mennonite girl. Eighteenth-century Susanna is assigned to churn butter, pump water, and grind herbs while wondering why she has not seen her mother all day.
