Click image to view larger “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” — Elliott Erwitt

Click to view larger One Room Schoolhouse. Mifflin County Pennsylvania

Click on image to view larger “The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure.” ―Fennel Hudson

Click on image to view larger John A. Hostetler, a renowned sociologist and scholar of the Amish who grew up in the Big Valley, called this area “one of the most diverse expressions of Anabaptist-Mennonite culture anywhere in North America.” This region, approximately thirty miles long and four miles wide, is home to no less than twelve different Amish and Mennonite groups—all of which are derived from one original Amish settlement. These groups range from some of the most integrated […]

Click on image to view larger The Byler Amish Church, also called die Alt Gemee (the Old Church), is descended from the Samuel B. King split. This sect, the smallest of the Old Order Amish groups in the Big Valley – Mifflin County PA. (also called the Kishacoquillas Valley) with 3 congregations, is often distinguished by the yellow roofs on the buggies of its members, earning them the nickname “yellow-toppers.”

Click image to view larger “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” Dorthea Lange