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Menno roundup: The quiet of the land live up to their name

July 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments · "Those shiftless Mennonites"

Nothing interesting happened to the Mennonites, the Amish or anyone remotely related to them this week.  Come on, people … these posts don’t write themselves, you know.  So I’ll leave you with stuff that is marginal at best (consider yourself warned).

Let this be a warning to you …. Get out there and make some news.

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3 Comments so far ↓

  • Melissa

    I remember being on the summer housekeeping crew and finding a dead cat in the freezer and a hatchet in somebody’s room – among the more interesting artifacts found in Oakwood.

  • JeremyY

    One of my seminary friends was the last RA for Oakwood this past year. During our May Term, after all the students had moved out, he gave me a tour through its darkened and trashed halls. There was something post-apocalyptic about the place.

    In regards to artifacts — apparently, my friend had discovered a blow up doll in the drop ceiling in one of the lounges. And then there was the time when students cooked feces in a crock pot…

  • urbanmenno

    They should write a book … Surviving Oakwood or something like that.

    I, too, served on the cleaning crew one summer and we dreaded, DREADED, going into Oakwood. But we never found blow-up dolls or dead cats. I might never have gone back if we had.

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