The Amish Seamstress by Mindy Starns Clark

There's a complicated legal dispute involving the property, and the two grandmothers would the property to remain in the hands of Herr Lauten, who will protect its historic significance, instead of being used to build a hydroelectric plant. And Will's grandmother, Alice, and Ada's grandmother, Frannie, apparently both still have an interest in a piece of property in Switzerland, where both families come from. Leah Fisher has been given the teaching position Ada had counted on-in part because Will Gundy urged it, believing it would be best for his oldest daughter, Christy, who is not recovering from the loss of her mother. But disappointing as that is, she's got her teaching position to look forward to, and in the meantime the adventure of the trip to Oregon and her sister's wedding.Īfter the wedding, she comes home to confusion and upheaval. The only fly in the ointment is that is that the man Ada loves, the widower Will Gundy, is apparently courting pretty Leah Fisher instead. With all this happiness, her always-protective mother gives her permission to travel to Oregon to attend her newly-discovered sister Lexie's wedding.

Ada has interviewed for the post of teacher in one of the community's one-room schools, and has been told she can count on getting the position. She now has the prospect of fulfilling her dreams, of becoming a teacher and in time marrying and being a wife and mother. That's a lot of upheaval for anyone, but in addition, Ada also learned during the visit of her sister Lexie, that the illness that has limited her all her life can be managed quite effectively. Ada also has a sister, Alexandra, two years older, who was adopted by another, English (that's those of us who are not Plain Folk) family in Oregon. Ada Rupp is a young Amish woman who has learned, in the past year, that she is adopted-the mother who raised her is the sister of the mother who gave birth to her, her 'aunt' who left Lancaster County, PA for Switzerland shortly after she was born.

The Amish Seamstress by Mindy Starns Clark