Article: When the power grid goes down: Survivalists seek out hardware store that serves Amish Country. (Opener).(Yoder's Shipshewana Hardware)(Brief Article)

Pull into the lot at Yoder's Shipshewana Hardware and, at first glance, it seems about like any other independent, small-town hardware store: some 14,000 square feet, tucked into a little shopping plaza, an affiliate of Fort Wayne-based Do It Best Corp. like a lot of Indiana's Mom and Pop hardware stores, a place where one can find everything from a lockwasher to a washboard.

Washboard? Yep. Right by the square-sided washtubs, and not far from the shelves displaying oil lamps and hand-cranked grain mills. Maybe this isn't such a run-of-the-mill little hardware store you've wandered into... come to think of it, those were hitching racks Out front, with horses tied ...

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