Posted on 03/14/2007 5:08:50 PM PDT by Dan Evans
Behind the bonnet is a girl who just wants to have fun -- and another beer, please.
It's Friday night at Twister's. Tina launches the evening with a tallboy of Sparks. Customers eyeball her white bonnet and shin-grazing dress as she sips from her can of malt liquor and caffeine. She's used to the gawking. Impolite scrutiny comes with being Amish.
"Everyone stares at you," she says. "It's not very fun, but I just ignore it."
Besides, Tina's on a mission to get tanked. No amount of rubbernecking can stop her.
The DJ approaches. Rodger Locher, a clean-cut city boy, is what's known as a "Yank," the all-encompassing term for not being Amish. Since he became Twister's resident DJ, Tina's become a regular, obsessed with listening to Beyoncé, the Killers, and Korn over rounds of neon cocktails.
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In the case of the guy I knew, I think that loss fueled the intensity of his vices.
No doubt.
That's kind of cool...a car which will drive you home when your drunk
Interseting. There really ought to be an ahmishanswers.com, but then I guess it wouldn't be up on the web?
We live in Taylorsville, MD, probably (about 40 minutes south of Gettysburg) and we had a 100 year old barn on our property when I moved out here. It was built by Ahmish (no nails). The foundation was washed out, so the thing had to come down. It broke my heart.
The branch of my family that took to the Ahmish/Mennonite/Society of Friends lifestyle (post 74) live out in Indiana and Ohio. I gather from my cousin's e-mails that they have a sort of communal situation.
While this branch of the family, did latch on with the "quiet folk", I believe they still practice some aspect of Catholic tradition, which would probably scandalize the more orthodox.
If I asked my cousin Tom whether they worshipped in a Catholic or an Ahmish church. He would probably say. "Yeah,..it's all good!"
Part Quaker, part Franciscan, part hippie and part communist, this last item, which to them, is not a perjorative.
Anyway, as a whole I believe the folks are excellent craftsman. The stuff they produce is an excellent quality! I'm betting they make good neighbors.
Anyway, as a whole I believe the folks are excellent craftsman. The stuff they produce is an excellent quality! I'm betting they make good neighbors.
Like everyone there a few bad apples, but I've always gotten along well with them. The last place we lived my amish neighbors took the better part of two weeks helping me build a house without pay. Of course, I'd help strip tobbacco, haul corn in with one of their mule teams or milk for them if they had to be away.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218459,00.html
While you mock the Amish, ask yourselves who among you would have had the courage to step forward as this Amish girl did?
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Source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/medal.honor/
Little Marian Fisher, who is Amish, is the civilian counterpart to Cpl. Dunham.
To be fair, will you be mocking the Marines next? For shame.
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I think tht you're being a little unfair to Dan.
While others have posted, what I would call some rude comments, often standard procedure here at FR. I don't think he has been in that mix. I think the comments that I've read by him reflect a respect for the Ahmish. I admire MANY of their virtues, just not all of them. Regardless, they are peaceful and free to live as they choose
The young Ahmish girl who was murdered gave a wonderful testimony of her faith in Christ. That we should have such grace!
My husband is from PA and moved to CA in 2001. While there, we bought furniture and had to have it ordered from a place in either Indiana or Ohio. It's beautiful. We moved back to PA, bought a new house and needed new furniture so again, had it ordered. I'll find out the name and ask you if you heard of it.
I'll find out the name and ask you if you heard of it.
I probably have since I've spent a lot of time knocking on doors getting my business going.
I invite you to substitute another (more combative) ethnic or religious group to see how it reads.
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They are allowed bed courtship. But there is not supposed to be any sex.
I know it doesn't make sense.
It goes back to the tradition of a boy and girl dating, if they lived a long distance apart, the boy would spend several days at a time at the girlfriend's home.
Back in the day space was limited and the dating couple would share a bed. Hence that tradition. They kept it even when there was no need.
Sex is not supposed to happen during dating. A pregnant bride will suffer great shame to this day.
I recall from my highschool days that Middlefield attempted to require the horses to wear diapers. The road apples were apparently clogging the storm sewers around the downtown area and every storm caused the intersection of 88 & Old State (downtown where the old train depot & Fritinger's feed mill were located).
Around that same time I was working as a clerk at Foodland and had my first encounter with young amish women coming in, changing into yankee clothing and going over to the saloon to get lit. I finally had that realization when I was mopping bathrooms one evening... I was waiting for two amish ladies to come out, but the only ones to come out were two "yanks" in Joe Camel t-shirts and jeans.
There are always "troubled" people no matter what religion or ethnicity. My folks were surrounded on 3 sides by amish neighbors and never had a problem with them... until one particular family moved in. They had built their house with materials they brought home a couple pieces at a time from a job-site. (I'm sure they were skimming off whatever project they were working on at the time) Then again, my first baby sitter was an older amish lady. If it wasn't for her, I probably would be another squeemish suburbanite... but while we were in her care, we had to help out around the farm. This included carrying bowls of hog blood (for blood sausage!) during a slaughter.
A friend of mine that grew up in a church that practiced that says that it typically goes beyond the bundling tradition. It may sometimes be innocent although I haven't talked to anyone yet who has kept it at that level.
Thanks for the good post keeping things in perspective. This wouldn't have been a story if it weren't out of the ordinary. We've learned a lot from the Amish about family life and teaching children to be good workers.
A friend of mine who grew up near Amish country (she never was) just received an abused dog which was rescued from one of their puppy mills for which they are renowned. When I mentioned how "good" they're supposed to be, she assured me that they are very good to their own community members but not so with people outside their community. Or to animals. I know that they were very kind to the widow of the man who shot their children recently, but from what my friend says, they are not necessarily good in general to folks outside their tight-knit community. This is from her observation of growing up around them.
A friend of mine who grew up near Amish country (she never was) just received an abused dog which was rescued from one of their puppy mills for which they are renowned. When I mentioned how "good" they're supposed to be, she assured me that they are very good to their own community members but not so with people outside their community. Or to animals. I know that they were very kind to the widow of the man who shot their children recently, but from what my friend says, they are not necessarily good in general to folks outside their tight-knit community. This is from her observation of growing up around them.
People tend to relate to the Amish in one of two ways. Sometimes they hold them up to the point that it makes them uncomfortable or the look down on them for their "wierd ideas". I've never seen people that just treat them as just another neighbor have trouble. One problem you can run into as a neighbor is handling their special needs. They often need someone to take them somewhere in a car and they often need a phone booth and a place to keep a deep freeze.
We handled the first by not accepting pay so they only asked when it was important and they couldn't find another way.(once or twice a year) For the other, they supplied the labor to build me a garage with a little room on the end. They kept a phone and three freezers inside and paid monthly to cover the electricity.
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