And two suckers for the kids, please
A Lancaster County Amishman visits the bank with his sons.
Scenes From 2018’s First Mud Sale
The first mud sale of 2018 took place this past Saturday, at Strasburg in Lancaster County. In the video below by Penn Live, John Stoltzfus of Strasburg Fire Company explains how the sales work, including how the funds are collected. The sales generate funds to cover about 1/3 of the company’s annual budget. They expected 3-4,000 people at the sale this year, from as far…
Baked Goods by Mary Mast (Ethridge, Tennessee)
Walking into the auction with the day growing long and things winding down, I knew exactly what I was looking for. When I spotted a stand with baked goods, I beelined over. The stand owner had set up under the porch of one of the farmhouses on the auction property, there in the Ethridge, Tennessee Amish community. I went right to scanning the plentiful items…
Five Interesting Finds in an Amish Appliance Store (Eash Sales)
Jim Halverson shares several photos of Amish appliances taken in the well-known Eash Sales store in Shipshewana, Indiana. What you’ll see in the photos below are things that help Amish wash clothes, stay warm, stay cool, and light their homes. Some of these are adaptations of the English version of a given appliance. Others are more old-fashioned. Eash Sales is perhaps better-known for its outdoor…