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Low German Book Launch
Annual Meeting - March 2-3
Jan.19-20 - Annual MHSC Mtg - Vineland, ON.
Feb 5 - Saskatoon Heritage Fair

Great Trek 2009 - Khiva 9

This Great Trek, tracing the original route has taken place now, (May 24- June 4, 2009) with Tour Leader John Sharp.

In 1880-81 five wagon trains of Mennonites left European Russia and headed east to Central Asia along the famous Silk Road. Seeking freedom from conscription and new economic opportunities, this group went east instead of west to North America as 18,000 did a decade earlier. In the last two years, new details of the Great Trek have emerged in the remarkable Silk Road cities of Khiva, Samarkand and Bukhara. John Sharp, history professor at Hesston College who has a passion for the Anabaptist story, and has studied primary and secondary sources on the Great Trek, was the leader on this trip.

You may wish to read his blog notes on their trip. John Sharp mentions there that the museum did not open after all as planned, but the tour got to see many other interesting things, and hear stories from the local people.

Past Events
August 2007 - Genealogy Workshop, Herbert, SK
October 2007 - Der Bote; Mennonite DNA
November 2007 - Prussian Historigraphy Day
March 2008 - Annual General Meeting
July 2008- Isaaks' Storytelling
August 2008 - Honouring Jacob H. Epp & John G. Rempel
October 2008 - Mennonites & Money
November 2008 - 1880 Great Trek
March 2009 - AMG & Bergthalers
Artisan Day'09
Great Trek Tour 2009
Great Trek 2009 - Khiva9
4th Reformation Course - fall 2009
Mid-winter-Workshop Feb/7/2010
March 2010 - AMG
Great Trek and 100th Church Anniversaries
Summer of 2010
MHSC Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, Jan/21/11
March 4-5 AMG, Mental Health & Mental Illness
Mennonites and Human Rights (Call for papers)
Artisan Day 2011 - a Photo Tour

Pilgrims on the Silk Road - by Walter R. Ratliff

Walter Ratliff’s book, Pilgrims on the Silk Road, and video, Through the Desert Goes our Journey, both are doing very well in sales and in awards and they are receiving the wider distribution and audience they deserve. Some people from the Rosthern area were on the second excursion to Khiva and area which was held in 2010. We hope in the near future to hear more from them about their adventures.

To learn more about these developments and to get copies of these works please connect with the web site: http://www.pilgrimsonthesilkroad.com/, (and the latest newsletter).

Recently Added: Judge McClelland's Histories - Der Bote Obits - E-Updates - Artisan Day Photos

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