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Garst Museum Speakers Series
Moving Off the Farm and Staying Amish
On Sunday, February 23 at 2 p.m., Garst Museum welcomes Susan
Trollinger, Ph.D. Dr. Trollinger is a Professor of English at the
University of Dayton (Ohio) where she teaches courses on rhetoric and
writing as well as a year-long interdisciplinary course on the
development of the West in a global context with faculty from English,
history, religious studies, and philosophy. Her research interests
include visual rhetoric, religion (especially the Amish and Protestant
fundamentalism), and tourism. Her recent publications include Selling
the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012) and
Righting America at the Creation Museum, co-authored with William Vance
Trollinger, Jr. (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016).
The Amish have in the last few decades moved through an incredible
transition, what some have called an Amish industrial revolution, that
has profoundly changed their way of life. In this presentation, Dr.
Trollinger will describe the traditional way of life that the Amish
lived and how that has been transformed by the need to make a living
off the farm. The question at the heart of this talk is: Can the Amish
remain Amish in an economy that demands that they make a living off the
farm?
All lectures are free and open to the public. However, regular
admission will apply to tour Garst Museum, which includes the
outstanding National Annie Oakley Center and Crossroads of Destiny in
addition to the Lowell Thomas, Keepers of Freedom, and Longtown
exhibits. Funding for this program was made possible by the Harry D.
Stephens Memorial, Inc. Foundation.
The Garst Museum is located at:
205 North Broadway, Greenville, OH 45331
937-548-5250
website: www.garstmuseum.org
email: information@garstmuseum.org
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