Ted Wojtasik. No Strange Fire. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1996. 400 pp. $14.95.
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 Barbara Ebersol (1846-1922), who resided in Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County, ...