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Old 06-15-2006, 10:22 AM   #8
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Great article/photo essay on Hutterites in National Geographic this month.

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...nds/index.html

If its all about land and farming, then they would do what other area farmers are doing . . . . . selling in the Calgary area and moving into the Grande Prairie area or western Saskatchewan where they can use the same money to buy infinitely more land.

However, I think you'll see some consolidation of Hutterite colonies in the coming years . . . . . they might not be as successful as they used to be.

About ten years ago in the Grande Prairie area, I went to a Hutterite Shivaree . . . . a pretty interesting and illuminating experience with some ribald jokes and the whiskey bottle coming out.

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