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    Notes from the Amish breakfast table

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    MY TWO unofficial breakfast jobs at Abe and Sarah’s farmhouse are: 1) hand-grinding the coffee–Abe is a big drinker of the stuff, as am I, and 2) sneaking in to Abe’s dad’s milkhouse to scoop up a pitcherful of ice-cold organic raw milk.  Okay, maybe not sneaking in, as Abe’s pop fully condones the practice.  But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with it. …

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    Amish Gang Members

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    In The Riddle of Amish Culture, Donald Kraybill explains Amish ‘gangs’ in Lancaster county: By the age of ten, an Amish child will be able to name some of the groups—Bluebirds, Canaries, Pine Cones, Drifters, Shotguns, Rockys, and Quakers—and even describe some of their activities. Youth are free to join the gang of their choice…Parents worry about which groups their teens will join because they…

    Reader photos: New York Amish

    ByErik Wesner
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    New York state is home to a large number of Amish communities–around 30 settlements–totaling over 70 church districts. New York ranks as the state with the sixth largest Amish population and has attracted a large number of out-of-state ‘immigrant Amish’–in fact, more than any other state since 2002. Brock shares photos from an Amish settlement in Montgomery County, New York. This particular community was founded in 1986 by Amish from…

    Lancaster Amish Weddings By Month

    ByErik Wesner

    Lancaster Online reached out to Steven Nolt of the Young Center at Elizabethtown College on when Amish weddings take place in Lancaster County and related settlements. He provided some data based on the Amish publication Lancaster Gemeinde Brief, which is a church newsletter. Autumn and specifically November is traditionally the most common time for Amish weddings in Lancaster County and related settlements. Here are Amish…

    A (Calm) Christmas Shopping Weekend In Amish Country (25 Photos)

    A (Calm) Christmas Shopping Weekend In Amish Country (25 Photos)

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    Like most Americans, the Amish celebrate Christmas (in fact, some celebrate more than one Christmas). Several seasons ago, Rebecca Miller shared five ways Amish spend the Christmas season with us. Rebecca, member of an Ohio Amish church, closed her list with this: “The main focus of the season is still first of all remembering Christ – the true meaning of Christmas, family, gift-giving, and helping…

    Balloon Release Leads to Interstate Amish-English Friendship

    Balloon Release Leads to Interstate Amish-English Friendship

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    Here’s a neat story of friendship that started when a fifth-grade teacher in Pennsylvania came across a balloon released several days earlier by an Amish girl in Ohio. From triblive.com: A deflated and tattered orange helium balloon landed in the Leechburg backyard of the Young family on April 20 of that same year. “It was not easy to read,” recalls Debbi Young, who was teaching…

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