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Submitted by editorkevin (not verified) on 8 February 2010 - 12:11pm

It's ashame that a newspaper as large as the Winnipeg Free Press couldn't try to dig a little deeper.  Apparently a new memoir being released that describes Hutterite life (in the 1960s) is causing some concern.  My questions: who is concerned? (besides the attorney in the article)  What does the book say?  I am assuming that the author is a former Hutterite, but the article doesn't even say that?  The memoir is called "Removing the Hutterite Kerchief" (a reference to the headcoverings Hutterite women wear).  The Winnipeg Free Press piece describes the book as: Removing the Hutterite Kerchief is a biographical story of Rebecca Hofer's experiences moving from an overpopulated colony to start up Greenwald, and the events that led to half the Greenwald Colony deciding to leave in 1966.  Sheesh, leave the Greenwald Colony or leave the Hutterites altogether???  Just an article with way too many unanswered questions.  You can read the article here.  The publisher's webpage answers a few questions the newspaper article didn't.  Click here to see it.   This sounds like an interesting book. 

Re: Hutterite Biography Causes Stir....

Submitted by KJuneBug (not verified) on 8 February 2010 - 2:20pm.

What I got was that the newspaper article was about the legal issue, not a review of the book.  It does sound like an interesting read.  If the folks within the colony are living to glorify Christ, then they's have nothing to worry about.  Sounds like they just may be concerned about the skeletons in the closet so to speak. 

This may be similiar in the east along the border, Okanogan Tribe stuff and places named after exsist on both in BC and WA- It's a gorgeous area on both sides of the border; you'll find things on both sides using the name Okanogan ( O-ca-naw-gan) .  I suppose interesting also is that there is a Hutterite Colony in that area of easter WA.