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In Reply to: RE: I'm going to the city to visit the English… posted by Wellfed on June 30, 2009 at 21:48:08
That's not an unusual sight in areas with a lot of Amish such as Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. You'll also see Amish boys and girls tearing down country roads on Rollerblades. Apparently they view Rollerblades as just a variant on the roller skates they've always allowed.
The beliefs and culture of the Amish are more complicated than the popular misconception of them as Luddites. They believe in self - reliance and independence. A connection to the electrical grid ties one to the larger world, so the Amish don't do that. On the other hand they have to refrigerate the milk from their cows, so Amish dairy farms use generators to power refrigeration units. The Amish are very practical people who carefully evaluate new technologies and adopt those that offer a benefit to them. In the last decade, for example, they came to understand that they needed phones to place orders with farm supply businesses, so the church leaders have allowed farmers to have phones. The catch is that the phone is only used for outgoing calls and must be far enough away from the house that it's ring cannot be heard there. Linoleum is easier to care for than hardwood floors, so the Amish quickly adopted it and widely use it in their homes.
My wife and I once stayed at a Mennonite family's bed and breakfast around Bird in Hand and as we were about to retire for the night an Amish man rushed into the house and asked the owners if he could use the barn phone. I guessed that the Mennonites had the phone as a convenience for their friends. I gathered later is was a livestock emergency.
Ee love going antiquing & collectableing in the area. that was over a decade ago, I don;t know what the Adamstown area looks like post-ebay. Not good hunting ground for records or tubes, unfortunately.
Don't let their folksy ways fool you, particularly when bidding against them at local auctions.
Gregg
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