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Marriage By Committee

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RC Eichacker

ISBN-13

979-8988797753

Publisher

Nikki Auberkett

Edition #

1

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N/A

Page Count

272

Published On

11/08/2025

Reading Age

N/A

Fiction Small Town & Rural
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About this book

When three young couples decide it’s time to move forward in their relationships—

from “special friends” to newlyweds—they’re faced with a rather bureaucratic process of petitions, directives, and communal obligations. There’s a chance the committee of church elders may vote against the marriage request, or that the mandated Period of Separation might result in someone losing interest and boarding the train for the Outside World.

For one bride’s father, however, the process is even more complicated than any of them know.

As an appointed elder and businessman, he’s forced to consider the complications and consequences of adhering to “the old ways” while maintaining the sanctity of tradition.

Together with his fellow elders, he must answer the multitude of questions growing louder among this quiet cluster of villages in rural Iowa—questions that will force the Inspirationist community to see that change doesn’t just mean letting go and moving on...

...it also means surviving.

About the author

RC Eichacker

I go by my initials, “R.C.” for Richard Charles. My last name, “Eichacker”, translated from German, means “oak acreage”.

I spent my first twenty years in the Amana Colony; Homestead to be specific. My next twenty-five years was absent of the community and spent getting college degrees, experiencing careers, marriage, and parenthood. I returned to reside in this changing historic community for the last forty some years. I have a fair idea of my past and its influence on life’s perspective and those who knelt in church before me. Having been a naval officer, a professional counselor/ therapist, a woodcrafter, an event planner, a peace and community activist, a traveler, a baseball player, a genealogist, a philanthropist, a parent, grandfather and great-grandfather—and now an author—all adds to my perspective on life.

On the 21st of February 1926, my maternal grandmother died. That day her daughter, my mother, was only 13 years old. Despite this horrible event, she was ordered to report for work immediately in one of the community kitchens. For the next seventy years, Mom would relate her feelings about not being given time to grieve. That story, and others, became the inspiration for this book.

One more biological and coincidental fact: by no action on my part, I am a fifth-generation grandson of the individual considered the most influential religious leader and administrator in the history of the community, Christian Metz.

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