By Dorothy O. Pratt '95M.A., '97Ph.D. (Quarry Books)
A cultural history of the third-largest settlement of Old Order
Amish in the world. Shipshewana is located in northern Indiana's
LaGrange County.
The author, an assistant dean for the Notre Dame College of
Arts and Letters, looks at how the Old Order Amish have remained
"a people apart." As part of her research for the book,
she spent more than a decade interviewing members of the Amish
community. The story she tells is of a culture that protects its
religious principles in the face of federal and state regulations
and abuse from the outside world. "[T]he group has managed
not only to survive but also to thirve," Pratt writes.
(June 2005)
