Blue Gate Amish Tours: Up Close and Personal

Connie Attractions & Events, Indiana July 10, 2018July 2, 2018Amish, Amish tours in Indiana, Amish Tours in Shipshewana, Blue Gate Amish Tours, Shipshewana, Shipshewana things to do, Shipshewana tours, Up Close and Personal tour, What to do in Shipshewana, What to see in Shipshewana 6 Comments

When I think of Amish craftspeople, I think of quilters and blacksmiths. I would never think of a leather worker who creates belts and purses from alligator or ostrich. But that is what one Amish craftsman does in a shop we visited during the Blue Gate Amish Tours Up Close and Personal Tour in Shipshewana, Indiana. As part of that tour, we also visited a Mennonite family that creates a special kind of basket, and an Amish bishop’s home.

Blue Gate Amish Tours: Evening in an Amish Home

Connie Attractions & Events, Indiana June 19, 2018Amish home visit, Amish Tours in Shipshewana, Blue Gate Amish Tours, Blue Gate Tours, Shipshewana, Shipshewana Amish tours, Shipshewana IN, Shipshewana Indiana, Shipshewana tours, Things to do in Shipshewana, What to do in Shipshewana 0 Comment

Our Blue Gate Amish Tours guide, Allen, encouraged us to ask questions of the Amish bishop we were about to meet in Shipshewana, Indiana. “Nothing’s off limits,” he told us. So the twelve guests on the Evening in an Amish Home tour spent the time asking Bishop Monroe Yoder questions. We came away realizing that although the Amish culture is different in many respects from mainstream America, we have more in common with them than we knew.