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2023 Exhibition & Event Series
2023 Exhibition & Event Series
In Sarasota, Florida, it is common to see members of the Amish and Mennonite community. You can see Amish families riding their bikes while wearing their traditional attire, eating ice cream at Yoder’s, or playing shuffleboard at the local park. Most are visitors for the winter months while a small number live here year round. They all settle in the small neighborhood of Pinecraft.
Through public talks and a photography exhibition, organized in Spring 2023 by New College of Florida, this series explored different aspects of life in Pinecraft through the eyes of local residents and historians, as well as understanding this Sarasota community in the landscape of the Amish across the United States today.
Photography Exhibition
Photography Exhibition
Photography by Pinecraft resident Katie Troyer shows her perspective on the daily life of the unique Amish and Mennonite community in Sarasota.
Events Series
Events Series
Katie Troyer is a former Amish who settled in Pinecraft decades ago and has become an unofficial photographer of the community, documenting the daily life of Pinecraft through her photography.
JB Miller discusses the early history of the Pinecraft community, when Amish and Mennonites first came to Sarasota in the 1920’s. JB Miller is a local Mennonite, whose parents belonged to the Old Order Amish, and who has devoted a lot of his life to learn about the community in which he grew up.
In this lecture, Professor Steven Nolt introduces the Amish in broad strokes, and in terms of several specific recent developments, including their geographic expansion and economic diversification.
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