Garden spot : Lancaster County, the old order Amish, and the selling of rural America
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.
x, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780195148435, 9780195148442, 0195148436, 0195148444
47995935
Introduction: a fertile soil
Cultivating the garden : the invention of Lancaster County
Pride and progress : education, literacy, and the little red schoolhouse
Dutch country : the Amish and tourism
Domain of abundance : food and farming
Landscape of progress : urbanization and planning
Preserving the garden : development and farm preservation
Epilogue: the harvest
Appendix : Farms and population of Lancaster County, 1900-2000