Family Photos

[happy baby]

Reba and baby JennyMess on the veranda, Marion Street, Lititz, PA, 1954.

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]