America's Amish Country II (Revisiting America's Amish Country) is a complete photo documentation of the Amish Lifestyle in most of the settlements in the US and Canada and their European history before moving to the US. 376 full color photographs, 144 pages, full color dustjacket
Doyle Yoder, Co-Photographer and Co-Author: Doyle Yoder, a native of Holmes County, Ohio, whose roots go back to the first Amish immigrants to America in the 1730’s has documented the Amish lifestyle since 1982. He publishes the annual Amish Country Calendar, Amish Country jigsaw puzzles, post cards and note cards.
Widely acclaimed for his Amish country, scenic and railroad photography, Doyle’s photos have appeared in Country, Country Extra, Reminisce, Farm & Ranch Living, Midwest Living, Country America, Trains, Railroad, Rail fan Boys Life and numerous other books, brochures, magazines and calendars. He was honored with a silver medal in 1993 by the American Travel Writers Foundation, for the best newspaper photo illustration of a travel article about Amish Country.
Yoder also operates pre-press, ad, brochure design and photography services, producing many of the brochures available in and about Amish Country.
Leslie A. Kelly, Co-Author and Co-Photographer: Leslie A. Kelly, a resident of Huntington Beach, California, is an internationally known photographer and writer. He has traveled the United States since 1973 photographing Americana. His travel stories and photography about the Amish, covered bridges, rural courthouses and other Americana have appeared in more than 120 magazines, books and calendars in the United States, Europe and Japan, to include Time Magazine, Literary Places In The US, National Geographic Guide To Small Town Escapes, Country, Farm and Ranch Living, Delta Airlines' SKY Magazine, Country America, Touring America and Trailer Life.
With Doyle Yoder, Kelly was co-author and co-photographer for America's Amish Country (1992) and America's Amish Country II (America's Amish Country Revisited) (2000). He has also authored and provided all current photography for two books for the California Gold Rush Sesquicentennial, California's Gold Rush Country 1848-1998 (1997) and Traveling California's Gold Rush Country (1997).
Working with William Anderson, noted Laura Ingalls Wilder biographer, Kelly has supplied color photography for Laura Ingalls Wilder Country (Harper Collins, 1990), Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1992), Little House Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1989), Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook (Harper Collins, 1995) and Little House Guidebook (Harper Collins, 1996) and Little House on the Prairie Photo Guide (Japanese language version, 1988, Kyuryudo Art Publishing).
Kelly is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association in Mansfield, a current member of the Oregon California Trails Association, and a current member and former Publicity Director for the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges.
