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Old Order Mennonites are deeply faithful, agrarian-rooted,
Swiss-German Anabaptists who have called Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, home for 300 years. Their meetinghouses silently
embody their religious traditions, and yet few outsiders have seen
the startling utilitarian beauty of these rural structures up
close. The author and photographer were allowed rare access to 22
austere houses of worship. The result is a one-of-a-kind book
featuring over 300 photos and diagrams that document all aspects of
the meetinghouses, from the design of their benches and buggy sheds
to the arrangement of tables central to worship. As fast-growing
Lancaster County encroaches on the Old Order way of life, their
communities are changing. This book is a record of an extraordinary
religious heritage.
Kitchen gardens are a long-standing Amish tradition, characterised
by their eclectic mix of vegetables, fruit, herbs, and colourful
flowers. Planned by the women of the household, they are used not
only to feed their families but as an artistic outlet. This book
explores the family gardens as a portrait of the women who design,
tend, and harvest them. Colour photographs of more than 18 gardens
capture their trademark mix of orderliness and ornamentation:
marigolds tucked among the melons, cockscombs with the cabbage, and
a whimsically painted chair, iron gate, or old balustrade. Included
are 32 family recipes straight from the garden: hot-pepper jam,
fried green tomatoes, sweet dill pickles, sauerkraut for a crowd,
corn fritters, and creamed celery. Like the resourceful women who
tend them, each garden has its own personality and beauty.
Every day in Lancaster County, thousands of Plain-sect farm
families hitch up draft horses to work their fields, and carriage
horses to take them from place to place. These animals are
foundational to a faith community that bans automobiles and
tractors in a desire to live simple, agrarian-based lives. Stories
and interviews accompany over 240 candid photos depicting the most
common horses at work and play in Lancaster County-from foals
frolicking at their mother's side to six Belgians hitched abreast
to harrow a field. The book features six draft horse breeds and
five carriage horse breeds-Belgian, Percheron, Mule, Suffolk,
Spotted Draft, Haflinger, Standardbred, Morgan, American
Saddlebred, Dutch Harness, and Friesian. The photos and stories
show how they are trained and cared for, offering profound insight
into the emotional connection that Plain people have with their
horses.
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