A Change and a Parting: My Story of Amana (Iowa Heritage Collection)

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Step into Iowa’s Amana Colonies and experience the charm of living history, cooking, weaving and furniture-making, arts and crafts, and architecture as they have got been for nearly 150 years.Let Strohman, a knowledgeable and congenial guide, take you through the many fine restaurants, bed-and-breakfast inns, gift and antique shops, historical buildings, and educational displays that make the seven villages of Amana Iowa’s most enchanting tourist attraction. His Colonies listings, at the side of a topic index, telephone numbers, hours, information on lodging and prices, menus, and other amenities make this a perfect guidebook.Delightfully illustrated with photographs of the day gone by and as of late, the Amana Colonies Guide also includes a history of the Colonies in addition to historical information about every of the seven villages, from their settlement by a communal religious society in the mid-1850s to their transition to capitalism in 1932. Everyone who plans to consult with the Amana Colonies will have to not be without this handy, authoritative book.

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