The Mennoville Trail
There exists, on our stretch of the lake, a neighbourhood of Mennos. They all know each other well and get along famously, helping each other with various tasks, watching each other's properties in times of absence, and generally enjoying an abundance of good old fashioned socializing. There has even been the occasional occurrence of inter-marrying over the years. Among these people of common ancestry and faith, live a great American couple, the Godwins. For the Mennos to traverse the distance from one end of Mennoville via the beach or the main highway, is a long and arduous trek, not unlike the journey through the Red Gate of WW 2, out of the Soviet Union into freedom on the other side of the border. The issue of a short cut came up and the Godwins were magnanimous in their offer to allow a beaten path to be formed across their property. Here you see the north and south gate of the trail as it crosses the American's soil from the Dyck and Thiessen homesteads to the Loewen Estate. Good fences may make good neighbours, but good shortcuts make even better neighbours. 
There exists, on our stretch of the lake, a neighbourhood of Mennos. They all know each other well and get along famously, helping each other with various tasks, watching each other's properties in times of absence, and generally enjoying an abundance of good old fashioned socializing. There has even been the occasional occurrence of inter-marrying over the years. Among these people of common ancestry and faith, live a great American couple, the Godwins. For the Mennos to traverse the distance from one end of Mennoville via the beach or the main highway, is a long and arduous trek, not unlike the journey through the Red Gate of WW 2, out of the Soviet Union into freedom on the other side of the border. The issue of a short cut came up and the Godwins were magnanimous in their offer to allow a beaten path to be formed across their property. Here you see the north and south gate of the trail as it crosses the American's soil from the Dyck and Thiessen homesteads to the Loewen Estate. Good fences may make good neighbours, but good shortcuts make even better neighbours. 
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