For 63 years, Tom Rose and his wife, Mary, built a life together on his family farm on Canaanville Road. Then last year Mary passed away, leaving Rose to face the future alone, surrounded by a lifetime of memories.

A Bar Mitzvah is a Jewish rite of passage historically reserved for 13-year-old boys. But four women in Athens are taking this spiritual journey together as adults. Discover why they invested two years of intense study to become Bat Mitzvah.

Unlike friends at the Hocking Hills Mennonite Church, the Springers were not born into their faith. Coming from an outside world, their transition was marked by questions of how they would raise their children and the kind of community in which they live.