Change & a Parting-86 (Ihc)

Iowa State Press, 1986. Iowa Her Coll ed. Trade paperback. Good. A Change and a Parting: My Story of Amana BY BARBARA S YAMURA WITH EUNICE WILLIS BODINE-(Iowa Heritage Collection)-SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-IOWA HERITAGE COLLECTION-1986 COPYRIGHT-ILLUSTRATED BY DALE BALLANTYNE-PUBLISHED BY IOWA STATE PRESS-361... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 262 p. Iowa Heritage Collection. Audience: General/trade. A Change and a Parting: My Story of Amana BY BARBARA S YAMURA WITH EUNICE WILLIS BODINE-(Iowa Heritage Collection)-SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-IOWA HERITAGE COLLECTION-1986 COPYRIGHT-ILLUSTRATED BY DALE BALLANTYNE-PUBLISHED BY IOWA STATE PRESS-361 PAGES Step into Iowa's Amana Colonies and experience the charm of living history, cooking, weaving and furniture-making, arts and crafts, and architecture as they have been for almost 150 years. Let Strohman, a knowledgeable and congenial guide, take you through the many fine restaurants, bed-and-breakfast inns, gift and antique shops, historical buildings, and educational displays that make the seven villages of Amana Iowa's most enchanting tourist attraction. His Colonies listings, along with a subject index, telephone numbers, hours, information on lodging and prices, menus, and other amenities make this a perfect guidebook. Delightfully illustrated with photographs of yesterday and today, the Amana Colonies Guide also includes a history of the Colonies as well as historical information about each of the seven villages, from their settlement by a communal religious society in the mid-1850s to their transition to capitalism in 1932. Everyone who plans to visit the Amana Colonies should not be without this handy, authoritative book.