Indiana - Part III

This marker is in Goshen, Indiana, in Elkhart County.

The Goshen Police Booth was built in the late 1930's to protect the city's two banks, which were located diagonally opposite of one another. At that time city officials had good reason to fear that auto bandits traveling the Lincoln Highway might strike Goshen. In 1933 members of the John Dillinger gang had raided police facilities in Auburn, Indiana, and Peru, Indiana, stealing several machine guns and other weapons, ammunition, and bulletproof vests. The gang later robbed a police station in nearby Warsaw, Indiana, of guns and bulletproof vests. In 1934 Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd robbed a bank in South Bend, Indiana, killing a law enforcement officer in the process. With Auburn located to the east of Goshen, Peru to the west, Warsaw to the south and South Bend to the north, it seemed likely that the Dillinger gang, and other gangsters of the day, were passing through Goshen while en route to commit their crimes.

Source: Goshen's Lincoln Highway

Indiana - Part II

When we were in Amish country we visited Shipshewana and were treated to lunch at the Blue Gate Restaurant. We decided to have the family style meal and are we glad we did. It was a lot of food and the really neat thing is you can eat all you want. They will keep bringing you food until you are full. The picture below looks exactly like what we had for lunch. It was yummy.

Here's how they describe their family style meal:

All you can eat.

"Experience a traditional Amish meal just like we serve in our homes, with the selection of a buffet, brought to your table in bowls and platters."

Tender roast beef, homemade meatloaf or smoked ham may be selected to accompany fried chicken as your entrees. Your meal also includes real mashed potatoes, chicken dressing, gravy, vegetables, homemade bread and your choice of pie, bread pudding or ice cream and a beverage.

If you want to read about more about this establishment go HERE.

After lunch we used their restroom. I've never seen a public restroom that was so clean. Well everything was very, very clean. It was a morning and afternoon that I will never forget. When we headed back home we saw many more Amish buggies. It was delightful.

Indiana - Part I

Hubby and I spent 9 days in Indiana this past week, and enjoyed visiting family that we've not seen in 10+ years. We had a fabulous time and got to visit many neat places. The most amazing place for me was visiting Amish country. What a different way of life. So simple and orderly. Below is a video hubby took of an Amish buggy heading to the gas station. Why? I haven't a clue. All the buggies were black. All of them.

I cannot imagine this being my only mode of transportation. These buggies were all over the place and many were driven by women. A fascinating world we live in.

We traveled here on Monday and you can tell the Amish houses as they are all white. No trim at all, just white. There were also tons of clothes drying on their clotheslines too. Must have been wash day.

It seemed to me that everything in the Amish world was either black or white.