The Refugees
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Both My Sons is a story of family and war in the early Pennsylvania forest, 1755 Greenywalt is a miller from the Kraichgau region of South Germany. In 1710 he and a band of 27 other Mennonists flee war and persecution along the Rhine to make a start in the New World. They set up their cabins in the deep forests of eastern Pennsylvania, along the Pequea Creek in modern Lancaster County.