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To: Bombardier

Oh yes, the Dunkard Brethren still exist. My children go to a Dunkard Brethren school.
They basically dress like the conservative Mennonites except for some of the really plainer ones who wear a cape apparatus over their cape dress, and tight long sleeves in all weather. The baptize by "dunking", or immersion, in contrast to the Mennos and Amish who, like Catholics, sprinkle water on the head (but NOT on babies!!!)

One of my ancestors was Daniel Cripe, a Dunkard Brethren minster in Indiana.


43 posted on 06/11/2005 8:16:18 PM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: Conservatrix; AnAmericanMother

Just wondering if you can identify a group of Amish or Mennonites based on their dress. Last year I noticed a group taking a tour of the NY State Capitol. The girls wore pastel colored dresses - pink, lavendar, mint green, yellow - with white collars (?) and hats. The group was far too large to have arrived in buggies so I am guessing they came by bus. There has been an influx of Mennonites? (Amish?) to the areas just outside of Albany where farmers are selling off their land. Any thoughts?


50 posted on 06/12/2005 4:00:06 AM PDT by NYer ("Love without truth is blind; Truth without love is empty." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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