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Thanks to Bill for sharing a few photos of two Amish settlements in Pennsylvania. The first shot is from the Smicksburg community, and the second two were taken near New Wilmington. These two communities are about the same size, around 15 to 17 church districts. Smicksburg is actually a Geauga County, Ohio daughter colony, hence the Ohio-style buggy, not too often seen in Pennsylvania. If…
Here’s a remarkable feel-good story about a team of audiologists helping Amish children with hearing and ear issues. In one plain Amish community in southern Michigan, medical professionals saw an uptick of children losing their hearing (untreated or repeated ear infections can cause hearing loss). From the Michigan Health blog: In 2019, Winters and her colleagues noticed that a large group of parents within an…
There’s been a change in Illinois: Amish gun owners will now have to “say cheese” for their gun IDs. According to this news story, if things stand Amish will apparently now need to have pictures on their Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) cards. This story might shed some light on a couple of lesser-known topics: photo IDs for Amish and other religious minorities, and the Amish approach…
Now that we’re finally on the right side of the Spring Equinox many of us have our minds on warmer topics. But let’s pause for a moment before diving into spring to think about a technology we often take for granted–refrigeration. Most Amish do use some variety of refrigerator. Amish who don’t typically rely on ice for cooling. Today Tom offers us some photos of…
This video is titled “Amish Singing On Amtrak”. The quality is passable though not great. But I couldn’t pass up sharing it. This video combines two themes seen here in recent months – Amish singing and Amish on trains. The men singing do appear to be Amish. I count at least three of them. The only detail the uploader put in the video description is…
Amish do not participate in Halloween, and many are not too keen on Daylight Savings Time either. When attending church in Lancaster in the summer for example, Amish may refer to the 8 o'clock 'slow time' church start time, in other words, 9 am on DST. Church begins at the same time, the whole year round, regardless of what the clock says. Earlier in the…