Amish caught in RV slump

Marty Schladen, The Journal Gazette

mschladen@jg.net

The bright lights and industrial roar of an RV plant might seem at odds with the bucolic lifestyle of the Amish.

But as those plants increasingly go dark, hundreds of Amish families in LaGrange and Elkhart counties are scrambling to find ways to pay for their plain, white gas-lit houses, their work horses and the covered buggies that symbolize their faith.