Urbanizing Amish Country

Back in December, an Urbanite article took me out to the quaint and colorful Lancaster, PA to dispel the popular myth that it's a tired town with nothing but women in bonnets selling shoofly pies (mmm). In fact, it's a city with galleries showing hot pictures of Debbie Harry, whose mayor drops the F-bomb!

Read the article in the actual magazine--it's free!--or online HERE.

Below are photos.

[Lancaster Market--Romanesque revivalized]

[Where the art is]

[At one stall, Dan Stoltzfus stood behind his baked goods. Tall, dressed in a blue collared shirt and black pants, he toted a straw hat and wore a long gray beard, sans moustache—a married Amish man’s tag. He tensed a bit when he saw my camera and notebook—many members of the Amish community are wary of camera-toting tourists and reporters looking for colorful features—then pointed to a large jar full of pickled vegetables. “Chow-chow,” he said. “It’s our best seller, won a blue ribbon. Take a picture of it,” he added. “Just leave me out of it.]

[Pretzels, apples, Things in Jars]

[Facades, facades, facades]


[Green and crafty]


[Post industry]