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Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America
Walbert, David (, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America
Walbert, David (, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ahs been known for two centuries as the "Garden Spot of America," a quintessentially rural place. Walbert considers what it means to be the Garden Spot in a culture that associates rurality with the past and asks whether or not a truly rural future is possible for such communities.
270 pages, 19 halftones, 2 maps
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 25, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780195148435 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions | 239 × 157 × 25 mm · 435 g |