Principal characters: Coalition members contributing to Mennonite Central Committee Children's Colony at Lavercantière and to earlier work, 1940-1948 -- Elsie Bechtel : pilgrimage and Anabaptist relief work -- Elsie Bechtel's writings : waiting and beginnings -- The world and the Lavercantière Refuge -- Elsie Bechtel's writings : Lavercantière as muse -- Travels to Lavercantière, 2006-2007
Summary
In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her diary, oral testimony, and archival research, draws on these various contexts to establish the complexity and significance of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index
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