The ingenuity of Amish and Mennonite women is expressed in the sweets and sours: pickles and relishes.

The many out-of-state volunteers, including those young Mennonite women along the roadside, playing a game of evening volleyball in their plain dresses and prayer coverings.

Quilts have long been a cottage industry in which Amish women farmed out piece goods to other Amish or Mennonite women.

When he met his wife, Anita, the daughter of a Mennonite woman who worked as nurse at Harlem Hospital, he found himself attracted to her faith's emphasis on resolving conflicts through methods short of violence.

Dating was more of a screening process than a romantic adventure, according to a Mennonite woman, now middle-aged, who prefers not to be identified.

Rimland wanted to write a novel about her people, and The Wanderers tells the story of the plight of Mennonite women caught in the social upheavals of revolution and war.

Like most Mennonite women, she wore a white apron and a lacy network cap with two strings hanging down over her shoulders; on hers the strings were white, signifying that she was not married.

Over the next half century, 66 Mennonite women served there.

A sewing circle is a monthly meeting of Mennonite women for the purpose of sewing bedding and clothing to be distributed by service and missionary organizations to people in need around the world.

The Amish and Mennonite women of the Pennsylvania Dutch country have been creating exquisite quilted masterpieces since the mid-19th century (and some believe even earlier).