In the valley of the shadow
an elegy to Lancaster County
by Randy-Michael Testa
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."
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In the Valley of the Shadow: An Elegy to Lancaster County
2000, University Press of New England
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161168157X 9781611681574
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In the valley of the shadow: an elegy to Lancaster County
1996, University Press of New England
in English
0874517699 9780874517699
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [75]-79).
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