The big story last week was the imprisonment of 8 Kentucky Amishmen for not displaying the Slow Moving Vehicle triangle on their buggies. Back in June we covered this issue with a lot of discussion on the implications of the case. It’s an issue of freedom and safety, similar in a sense to controversies over [...]
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All about Plain transportation The buggy is essential to Amish society. Amish buggies are both practical transport, and symbolic of the people. Though most Amish allow riding in motor vehicles such as cars and buses, no Amish permit ownership of the automobile. Amish feel the horse-drawn carriage promotes a slower pace of life and greater [...]
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I’m working on a huge Amish buggy post for Friday. Many photos, including some lesser-known buggy styles and designs. One example: Extra credit to anyone who knows where this photo was taken.
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As Ira discussed yesterday, Amish work a lot. Selling books in Amish communities, I’d often come across Amish in the middle of some task. If you show up at an Amish home and want to talk to the residents, odds are you are going to be interrupting some chore or job. I quickly learned which [...]
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Here on the blog and on the Amish America Facebook page, some of you have been bringing up the court decision in Kentucky on Slow-Moving-Vehicle (SMV) triangles. The SMV triangle has become iconic of the Amish and the vast majority of them willingly display them on their carriages. However, some of the “lower” groups (in [...]
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When was the last time you went car shopping? Have a fun time? If you were buying new, odds are you had to pick through a whole pile of choices. Amish buggy buyers have their fair shake of options to choose from too–everything from the upholstery to the lighting to the dash to the battery [...]
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Beth Russo has kindly shared 10 photos of the Amish settlement at Bowling Green, Missouri (Pike County). Beth recently made a trip during which she visited an Amish woodworking shop and a beekeeper. You can find more of her photos on her Facebook page. Bowling Green is the oldest Amish settlement in Missouri, founded in [...]
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Traveling through Amish settlements you may notice something like this: That’s not a Plain people hauler, nor the caboose of some sort of horse-drawn train. This bulky vehicle is a church wagon, and you’ll see them throughout Amish America. Each Amish church district will have its own wagon, used to transport benches from one location [...]
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Lately I’ve been sharing about the seven communities visited on my recent East Coast Amish trip. We’ll have detailed posts upcoming on a few more of them. In the meantime I thought I’d share a bit more on one of the most obvious visual markers of Amish–the buggy. As you probably know, buggy styles can [...]
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