Inside the lost-in-time Mennonite community in Belize
Don't show me this message again✕ Mennonite boys with cameras – ‘a tool of communication for the both of us’, says the author (Jake Michaels/Setanta Books) After a “weary and tiring” journey in 1957, a community of Mennonite Christians arrived on the southern bank of the Belize River in the Caribbean country then called British Honduras. “Neither bridge nor ferry awaited them,” wrote the Mennonite Gerhard S Koop in 1991. “On the northern bank of the river was a dark and forbidding jungle with its strange noises and smells. Underneath the dense bush, giant snakes and jaguars...
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