Episode 164: Mennonite and Amish community of Pinecraft
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English - August 08, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We begin our episode with a Florida location we've not discussed previously: Alva.
Our guest is JB Miller, a Mennonite who grew up in Pinecraft next to Sarasota in the 60s and 70s. A community of Mennonite and Amish farmers started coming to the area to farm in the 1930s and has persisted ever since. No longer farming, tourism is now the top draw.
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