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In the valley of the shadow : an elegy to Lancaster County / Randy-Michael Testa ; photographs by Ed Worteck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Testa, Randy-Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mennonites--Pennsylvania--Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County)--Social conditions.
- Mennonites.
- Amish--Pennsylvania--Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County)--Social conditions.
- Amish.
- Mennonites--Pennsylvania--Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County)--Pictorial works.
- Social conditions.
- Pennsylvania--Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County).
- Amish--Pennsylvania--Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County)--Pictorial works.
- Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County, Pa.)--Social conditions.
- Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County, Pa.).
- Mill Creek Valley (Lancaster County, Pa.)--Pictorial works.
- Real estate development--Pennsylvania--Earl (Lancaster County : Township).
- Real estate development.
- Pennsylvania--Earl (Lancaster County : Township).
- Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township)--Politics and government.
- Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township).
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 79 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover : University Press of New England, [1996]
- Summary:
- This compassionate examination of the dilemmas facing the Amish and Mennonite communities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania focuses on the controversy surrounding construction of a 600-unit retirement complex on prime farmland. Through interviews, personal accounts, and newspaper reports of the controversy, Randy-Michael Testa traces the cultural and economic erosion that is threatening a unique minority, and Ed Worteck's evocative photos capture a physical destruction indicative of greater moral decay. The interplay of politics, deception, bigotry, and beleaguered faith succumbing to the age of technology vividly portrays "a place struggling to keep its spiritual dignity, a place where modernity thunders over tradition, as time races ahead".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0874517699
- OCLC:
- 34623723
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