{"product_id":"patchwork-a-story-of-the-plain-people-9781647997076","title":"Patchwork: A Story of \"The Plain People\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anna Balmer Myers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bibliotech Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Balmer Myers was an American author of romantic novels featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was born in Lancaster County in Manheim, Pennsylvania and attended school there. She later attended Drexel University and lived and worked as a schoolteacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her most well known work is Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites (1921); other works include Patchwork; a Story of \"the Plain People\" (1920), The Madonna of the Curb (1922), I Lift My Lamp, and a collection of poetry entitled Rain on the Roof (1931). Amanda, about a young Mennonite girl who seeks an education, is hired as a teacher in a local one-room schoolhouse, and eventually marries a childhood friend, contains many delightful appreciations of life along with early 20th century reminiscences, as indicated by such chapters as: \"The Snitzing Party\", \"Boiling Apple Butter\", \"The Spelling Bee\", and \"One Heart Made o' Two\" . Patchwork, the story of a young girl growing up within a community of \"plain people\", some of the story in the format of a diary, includes the girl's first romance. ...(wikipedia.org)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46454585458839,"sku":"9781647997076","price":2702.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781647997076.webp?v=1769149277","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/patchwork-a-story-of-the-plain-people-9781647997076","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}