31. From Quilts to Inquiry: Reflections on the Amish Heritage Scholars Symposium

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This week we start out with an update on Naomi's recent health adventures and then turn our attention to recapping the first weekend in June when we attended a Symposium on How Our Amish Heritage Influences Our Education and Career at Elizabethtown College.
It all started with a very social Costco run to kick off our girls' weekend with all the necessary supplies (cheesecake, almonds, and salsa, FTW). Next, we reflect on the Symposium and themes that emerged over the course of the day. Specifically, there was a consensus on what didn't matter nearly as much as we'd feared (being smart enough) and what did matter (moral support and resources). Surprising challenges included things like the difficulty of finding new social circles and the loneliness of having no one to understand or celebrate your academic successes with you.
Finally, we look ahead to possible future Symposia (join us!) and wonder about the need for a memoir writing workshop/group/retreat of some kind. And if you listen to the end, you'll learn how to enter to win a copy of Lizzie Hershberger's memoir, Behind Blue Curtains!
Links to all the things we mentioned (or should have):
Sonder: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it (Wiktionary)

A City at Work: 1912 and 2012, specifically Mercy Hospital Operating Room: 1912 vs. 2012

A Heart for Truth (Cousin Erma’s podcast)

How Our Amish Heritage Influences Our Education and Career: A Symposium (event recap on Saloma Furlong’s blog)

Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College

Amish Descendant Scholarship Fund (Naomi Kramer Yoder and Emma Miller)

Lizzie Hershberger, author of Behind Blue Curtains: A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman's Survival, Escape, and Pursuit of Justice

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Chapters

1. 31. From Quilts to Inquiry: Reflections on the Amish Heritage Scholars Symposium (00:00:00)

2. Naomi's Health Update (00:00:08)

3. Cousins at Costco (00:11:00)

4. Young Center and Amish Studies (00:19:25)

5. Symposium Themes (00:27:11)

6. Possible Future Events (00:48:17)

7. How to Enter to Win the Giveaway (00:50:36)