A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable ...
Unidentified Maker from the Lapp family, Smoketown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, “Lone Star / Star of Bethlehem” (c. 1935–45), cotton and wool, 81 x 82 inches (205.74 x 208.28 cm) (all photos Julie ...
There are signs less obvious than handwritten “No Sunday sales” that this is an Amish garden. First, the garden is large enough to feed a family in the double digits. Long straight rows of beans, ...