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Author:
Stevick, Pauline, 1938-
Title:
Beyond the plain and simple : a patchwork of Amish lives / Pauline Stevick ; illustrations by Freiman Stoltzfus.
Publisher:
Kent State University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
xiii, 159 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Amish--United States--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
Amish--United States--Anecdotes.--Anecdotes.
Community life--United States--Anecdotes.
Country life--United States--Anecdotes.
United States--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
United States--Anecdotes.--Anecdotes.
Stevick, Pauline,--1938---Travel--United States.
United States--Description and travel.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Amish family values -- Three long hours of sitting still -- Countercultural ideals -- An Amish intellectual -- A wedding and a wedding tale -- 100 quilts, 200 pies, and lots of other stuff -- Amos speaks his mind -- A patchwork of Amish women -- Do chickens come home to roost? -- When death comes -- On the move -- On punishment and prodigals -- Samuel's story -- Plain people's paradise? -- Old folks at home -- In unison or harmony?
ISBN:
0873388801
9780873388801
9780873388801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0873388801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2006016312
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

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