This is about the Old Colony Mennonites who moved from Canada to Mexico in the 1920s. It focuses on these Mennonites in Mexico during the 1940s through the 1960s and how these young people, adults, villages and colonies became mature.

Before you read the story -- Growing up in Mexico -- Children play and then grow up -- Farmers grow up -- Farmers and gardeners -- Inventive pioneers -- Colonies grow up -- The colonies of Mexico today -- Life on a colony : what did it mean? -- Mennonite colonies in Mexico today.