This Little Journey: A Montana Hutterite Woman Leaves Her Colony

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Ruth Walter of Judith Gap, MT
Clay Scott

When Ruth Walter and her husband, both of them with 8th grade educations, decided to take their three children and leave the Flat Willow Hutterite Colony to make a new life for themselves, they 'didn't have a kernel of salt in their cupboard.' 22 years later, they are pillars of the tiny Montana farm community of Judith Gap.

(Broadcast: "Mountain West Voices," 3/30/15. Listen weekly on the radio on Mondays, 3:00 p.m., or via podcast.)

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