Marcia Pledger
Marcia Pledger is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Marcia Pledger
NEWS FEATURE: Old World Crafts Get New-Economy Marketing
By Marcia Pledger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WALNUT CREEK, Ohio _ Day after day, Roy Wengerd makes leather belts in a barn behind his Holmes County home. Using tools powered by compressed air, it is a slow, deliberate process. A burner fueled by gas from a well heats his workshop, which battery-powered lights illuminate from overhead. His […]
NEWS FEATURE: Old World Crafts Get New-Economy Marketing
By Marcia Pledger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WALNUT CREEK, Ohio _ Day after day, Roy Wengerd makes leather belts in a barn behind his Holmes County home. Using tools powered by compressed air, it is a slow, deliberate process. A burner fueled by gas from a well heats his workshop, which battery-powered lights illuminate from overhead. His […]
NEWS FEATURE: Amish Turn to Trade as Land Grows Dear
By Marcia Pledger — July 15, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WILMOT, Ohio _ For more than four decades Abe Keim raised his family and ran a 91-acre farm and woodworking shop following the tradition of his Amish ancestors in this agricultural community in the northeastern part of the state. Now the 73-year-old Old Order Amish man manages the Wooden Toy […]
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