Children of the River: Growing up with 18 brothers and sisters along the Susquehanna

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Experience a life that few people live today. It’s a life filled with physical risk requiring each member to work–and play–for the good of the whole. Told with refreshing forthrightness, this tribute and memoir is a heartwarming story of 19 children growing up in a Mennonite home and farming community. The Susquehanna River is the touchstone for recollections of obstacles, triumphs, and challenges in a large, loving household. Binding the family together are parents with unshakable values; songs at every turn; and the constant demands of farm life.
Experience your feet touching the cold bedroom floor on a winter morning–sharing a single bathroom–surviving a flood–driving tractor at the age of five–feeding winter-born lambs by the cookstove–high spirits and teasing–discovering a nest of baby rabbits–and the care-filled guidance of parents with nearly opposite dispositions.
Love, connection, and faith formed and continues to sustain this family.
This story is beautifuly told by one of the family members: Rose Stoltzfus Huyard.