This Members Only Masterclass will be held over Zoom

The Amish in America   

This lecture will focus on the Amish in America today. Are they “frozen in time,” as often depicted? What are the ties that bind together this distinctive community? The lecture will give an overview of their beginnings and their movement through time and space to end up in the Midwest. It will then look at the three central tenets of the community that bind it together in today’s world. It will then look at how they interact with technology and the modern culture. 

Marcus Yoder lives with his wife Norita in Holmes County, OH where he is the Executive Director of the Amish Mennonite Heritage Center. Marcus grew up in an Amish family, where he followed the normal pattern of training in a trade. In his thirties, he had the opportunity to follow through with his wife on their dreams of a formal education and graduated from the Ohio State University in 2010 and from Yale University in 2015. Marcus lectures and teaches in a variety of places and formats. He is the author of Cathedrals, Castles, & Caves, a book on early Amish and Mennonite history.

(Register online through the Member Registration website.)