Amish Houses & Barns by Stephen Scott

Amish Houses & Barns by Stephen Scott

A study of three Amish homesteads: one in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one in Holmes County, Ohio, and one in LaGrange County, Indiana. Scott examines the history and cultural development of a typical Amish house and barn, one in each of the three largest Amish communities in North America. Home is the center of Amish life and most life events:birth, marriage, daily work and play, retirement, and even death happen there.           Stephen Scott explores the history and cultural development of three Amish homesteads, each of which has been occupied by the current family of residence for at least four generations. The Stoltzfus Farm of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Yoder-Miller Farm of Holmes County, Ohio, the Bontrager-Miller Farm of LaGrange County, Indiana. Amish Houses and Barns also includes a photographic essay of typical Amish architecture in each of the three communities. Its numerous anecdotal stories,"Barn Fire," "The Farm Is Strip-Mined," and "Amish Style Graffiti", enhance the human story.

Stephen E. Scott was born and raised in southeastern Ohio. He was educated in Beavercreek Township. He went to a number of plain churches, including strict Mennonite churches, during a period of spiritual searching. Scott spent a year in the Amish and Mennonite communities of Holmes County, Ohio.

In 1969, he began two years of alternating service at Lancaster Mennonite High School in Pennsylvania after attending the Numidia Mennonit Bible School in Pennsylvania. Scott joined the Old Order River Brethren Church, a conservative Anabaptist denomination, during this time. He wrote Plain Buggies, Why Do They Dress That Way? while working as a researcher and writer for Good Books.

He's the coauthor of the book Life Without Power.

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ISBN 13	9781561480524
ISBN 10	1561480525
Title	Amish Houses & Barns
Author	Stephen Scott
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Good Books
Year published	2002-03-21
Number of pages	174
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