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Mary Swander’s Buggy Land

Mary Swander

A tale of two homesteads, one among the Amish, the other in Connemara, Ireland. A serialization of a new book of non-fiction.

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“We’re at war,” I told Elmer Kauffman, my Amish neighbor.

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Along the rows, each stitch

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    I am a writer, the executive director of AgArts, and the host of the podcast "AgArts from Horse & Buggy Land." Latest book: The Maverick M.D.

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