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Posted by tracksionmotor on Mon Oct 2 22:06:14 2006, in response to Re: Who the hell shoots up an Amish school!?, posted by Train Dude on Mon Oct 2 18:28:42 2006. Some Amish do drive....we call them 'black buggy Amish' because they used to paint chrome bumpers black. They are not the 'people in the magazines' anymore. Even use steel wheeled 'rollerblades!'The key to practical Amish life is to accept technology but remain 'off the grid.' The telephone is considered an instrument of idleness but now accepted....at a distance located far away from the home. The rule has been that one tractor takes away the work of two men and three horses...ground driven machinery has been replaced by horse towed enginepowered machinery. The wood/workshops are illuminated by large glass windows to keep the work 'dawn to dusk' but there is machinery: engine powered raceways/hydraulic/pneumatic operated by the latest equipment....dealers readily convert electric tools. Amish have a reputation for hand sewn quilts and they have competition from the Orient. What they will not do is use machinery in that area...everything is done in 'quilt bees' often by done by local Church congregations. I've attended the auction at the Harristown Farm Center. My mom is dying and her collection of quilts starting from a 1953 Kutztown prize winner is being shipped all over the country to guilds and museums. What is left is my collection of Singer Featherweight sewing machines....I have eight...five 221s (one pre-war), two 221Ks (white machines) and a 300 (full size with the machined helical gearing.) I could spend an evening posting about Mennonite life from my personal experience. Pray for the victims of Roberts rampage. Peter |
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