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2013 Amish Conference: Day One
Day one of the Amish technology conference at Elizabethtown College. Â This morning I drove an Amish friend who is helping to leading the Ag and Business tour a tour to the Young Center. The tour will take in a number of Amish business including a hydroponics produce grower and a popcorn place. Â The second tour will focus on health and medical related destinations including a…
PA Dutch Medical Interpreters Aid Lancaster Plain Population
Lancaster County now has its first two Pennsylvania Dutch medical interpreters. They are Amish-raised Crist Beiler, an RN at Lancaster General Hospital, and Lydia Nolt, a medical liaison and member of an Old Order Mennonite church. Both were recently certified by their institutions. A big part of their work is reducing anxiety, especially in children (Amish children below school age typically have varying degrees of English…
Amish people waiting for a ride…
Taken in Wayne County, Ohio. Â Many Amish hire “taxis”; some, when available, ride buses or trains. There is, of course, a third transport option for Amish: they feed you, you drive them. Â I have been participating in this for some time now. Â But I only recently learned the (un)official name of this Amish-English program: “Meals for Wheels”. This photo reminds me of waiting on a…
Do Amish eat at McDonald’s?
The short answer: yes. Burger King, Pizza Hut, and Wendy’s too. The bulk of the Amish diet still consists of home-prepared meals. Amish farmers have traditionally eaten a diet based around dairy products and home-raised foods. Most Amish today, regardless of occupation, have an extensive garden at home. Amish housewives still do a lot of canning. Amish diets have changed But with occupational changes, Amish…
Our Amish Values Winner (Plus Section Z on “Zeal”)
We’ve got a winner today of the book Our Amish Values: Who We Are and What We Believe by Lester Beachy. Before we jump to that, I wanted to share one section from the book. If you didn’t catch the original post, it’s a concise book, with great photos of Amish life, in which Beachy describes Amish values from A to Z. I’ve also included…
Is Amish life really so “simple”?
Reader Michele purchased an Amish home and converted it to “English”, a process which took about half a year to begin. Â She had this to say about “living Amish” in the meantime: I don’t know why they are called “simple”…we lived just like Amish for 6 months before our contractor could start our construction. Â There isn’t one thing “simple” about being Amish. Â It’s a lot…
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I love that picture!