David Luthy. Amish Folk Artist Barbara Ebersol: Her Life, Fraktur, and Death Record Book. Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1995. xvi + 111 pp. $29.95.
WHILE AT FIRST GLANCE these two books are very different--Wojtasik's is a fictionalized treatment of the barn fires in the Old Order Amish community of Belleville, Kisacoquillas Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1992, while Luthy's is a meticulous study and catalog of the Fraktur (calligraphy) of Amish folk artist ...