Have you driven a Ford lately?
Amish youth “run around”during adolescence. A Rumspringa-age Amish youth’s buggy in Lancaster County.
Amish youth “run around”during adolescence. A Rumspringa-age Amish youth’s buggy in Lancaster County.
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Tomorrow (Monday) I ship off on a weeklong trip to East Coast Amish communities. Â I’ll be visiting these settlements: Halifax County, VA Charlotte County, VA Lancaster County, PA Big Valley, PA Cecil County, MD Dover, DE And maybe one or two others. Big Valley I have visited, and Lancaster I know well. Â The others are all new. Curious if anyone is familiar with these communities….
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Be careful to the speed limit, young man!
Will keep it under fifteen of course.