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    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    Longtown, Ohio

    Published: Oct 26, 2015 · Updated: Oct 26, 2015 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    blackchurchBy Kevin Williams

    I recently spent some time in an obscure crossroads town by the Ohio/Indiana border, a town that has a fascinating and progressive racial identify.  I was there working for the Washington Post and came away charmed by a town that seems to have checked racial strife at the door.  I wish this town, and the young man working to preserve it, nothing but the best in the years ahead.

    Rachel and I took Aster to a church service at Longtown's last church and really enjoyed the fellowship and scripture. The above picture is of the Bethel Long Wesleyan Church, a historically black/mixed race congregation.

    I hope you find the article as fascinating to read as I did working on it.  Click here to read.

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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Linda Powers

      October 27, 2015 at 2:09 pm

      Kevin that was a great story on Longtown.. I was there a couple of times as a teenager went with my mom and her boyfriend to a tavern like place... that was in like1957-1959?
      Thanks for the story... I really enjoyed reading it.

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      • Kevin

        October 28, 2015 at 9:27 am

        Thank you, Linda...locals there still talk about that tavern, I think it closed sometime in the 1960s...neat place!

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