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Credit cards, nuclear power, and funny cigars

Okay, just a bit lazy today on the Amish blog and trying to get my act together to go run however many miles in the freezing Polish weather (snowed yesterday!), so I am going to do a little roll call of some of my favorite posts from the past year:

Do the Amish use credit cards?

Settlements that failed:  an evangelistic Amish group in Ohio gets ‘nuked’.

Selling the Amish:  from upscale furniture to Amish cigars.

Hope you like ’em, thanks to all for reading!

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    11 Comments

    1. I do like then thank you very much! Would you like some of our heat? it is unusually warm here in Missouri today. In the lower 80’s

    2. I’m an avid runner myself…I’m envious of you getting to run in Poland…SW Ohio offers little in scintillating running scenery…

    3. Let us know about good bicycle touring destinations in Poland. What would be enjoyable to someone who enjoys riding in Amish country?

    4. Michelle, could definitely use some of that heat! I wonder what part you live in-I’m guessing southern? I really like Missouri–an interesting state–part southern, part Midwestern. I lived in Poplar Bluff and Sikeston one summer, and near Camdenton (Lake of the Ozarks) during another. Muggy like NC.

    5. Kevin SW Ohio seems pretty flat and not too exciting…SE Ohio is another story…my area in Poland-Krakow and vicinity- is pretty hilly and beautiful. A couple years ago I spent a day in an Old German Baptist settlement-I believe it was not too far from Dayton- which I think you may have written about if I’m not mistaken.

    6. Matthew

      Speaking of Southeast Ohio, have you visited the Amish community of Calais in Monroe County? If so, what do you know about them? Not far away there is also the larger community of Quaker City.

      The area down there is most beautiful. Especially when it is snowing :-).

    7. Wilder places to visit in the Polish countryside

      John I would definitely stick to the southern part of Poland–Malopolska which is the district I live in ranges from low hills to Alpine-level peaks in the very very south. Most of Poland is flat except along the southern border. Also nice is the southeast part of the country, considered to be the most ‘wild’ and undeveloped–the Bieszczady mountain area. These are a bit lower mountains than the Tatras. There are a lot of very small-scale farmers in Poland, fairly primitive operations. You will occasionally see horse-drawn vehicles in some areas (though nothing like what I saw in NE Romania). Also interesting are the gorale people in the very south of Malopolska, they are a somewhat separate group with their own customs, traditional dress, and dialect. There are sheep’s cheese makers throughout gorale country that have little wooden booths set up by the side of the road, not unlike what you’d see in Amishland. Though a lot of the gorale lifestyle has been commercialized as this is a fairly tourist region. Nice to visit anyway though. So maybe a trip to Poland?

    8. I would like to go bicycling in Russia, but that may never come about. What you describe of Poland sounds good, too, but I know a tiny bit of Russian and no Polish, so that’s a factor. (Though I once saw a bit of Polish in a movie with subtitles, and it seemed there were a few words that were vaguely similar.) I like to ride in agricultural regions; I’m going to go online to see what I can learn about the places you mentioned. Thanks for taking the time to tell me about them.

    9. I would like to go bicycling in Russia, but that may never come about. What you describe of Poland sounds good, too, but I know a tiny bit of Russian and no Polish, so that’s a factor. (Though I once saw a bit of Polish in a movie with subtitles, and it seemed there were a few words that were vaguely similar.) I like to ride in agricultural regions; I’m going to go online to see what I can learn about the places you mentioned. Thanks for taking the time to tell me about them.

    10. John you’ll generally be safer in Poland 🙂

      I can usually comprehend about 15-20% of the Russian I hear. They are fairly similar but still from two different branches of the Slavic language group, the West and East branches.

    11. Amish in Monroe County, Ohio

      Hey Matthew, I have not been to either of them, and off the top of my head do not know too much either. Ohio has a ton of smaller settlements just scattered across the state and I don’t know if those are ones that have popped up fairly recently. The ’07 Calender lists 4 church districts for Monroe county including Quaker City but does not give any details on when they were started…another book I have which is not completely up to date has a church district at Lewisville, founded 1987, but that’s all it lists for Monroe County.