Photo: Anne Blackwood at work. Photo by Scott Byram This article comes from the September issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Faith-filled responses to health-care costs.”
Two cow carcasses lie piled onto each other, just off the parking lot. The Shipshewana (Ind.) Auction Barn has some actual barns attached to it, and two of its residents must have died recently. A few hours later they are gone, hauled off with a Caterpillar.