Anon wrote: Would you please describe Amish elementary schools. My Amish School I cannot describe elementary schools in general, but I can describe the one I attended as a student, and I later taught in that same school for two years.Ours was a little brick, one-room school built in 1965. It had a canvas curtain that was pulled and snapped together during class […]
Peggy wrote: Hi Saloma! I’m saving most of my questions for your appearance in S. Hadley :-) However, I do have one from this last post: What reason is there for not having storm fronts on buggies? I know there are some communities that don’t allow them and that makes no sense at all, especially in the winter time. I
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Wow! I am impressed with the questions you all came up with. Some of them will be hard to answer, because they are beyond the scope of my knowledge. I has been thirty years since I last lived with the Amish. There are things that have changed in my community, but I am not always privy to what these are.
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Very often when people think of Amish, they think of their mode of transportation — the horse and buggy. I'd like to offer a view of what it’s like to look out from inside a buggy. Sometimes those buggy rides were as romantic as they seem, especially on a summer day, when we drove past the woods and fields
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As February draws to a close, I am looking out over our little town with the drips going past my window and the sun shining brightly. That means that the sun is melting the snow on the roof. In the meantime, there are great avalanches of snow that come off the roof with a loud rumble every few moments. We
David just drew a name for the person who is to receive the free, autographed copy of Why I Left the Amish, along with a free eco-friendly fabric gift bag. Congratulations to Deanna — you are the winner of the drawing! Please send me your address, so that I can send this out to you. Thank you to all who participated. For
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