In the News ... Caprock Chronicles: "Mennonites in West Texas: Part 1"

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, a Librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. This article is a brief history of the oldest continuously meeting Sunday School classes in Lubbock and the challenges it has faced and successfully met.

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• The story began in the 1500s with a Roman Catholic Priest named Menno Simons

By Jack Becker, Contributor
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - West Texas and the Llano Estacado have always been home to many interesting people and animals. But what many people don’t know is that the Llano has connections to Switzerland, Poland, Ukraine, and Canada. Thanks to these connections, reporters from all over the country flocked to an international scene, which took place on the Llano in the late 1970s ...

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