[TheForge] Amish YAK This reply has NOTHING TO DO WITH BLACKSMITHING YAK

Sat Mar 16 19:17:00 2002

on 3/16/02 5:37 PM, [email protected] at [email protected] wrote:

> My father actually studied and lived with the Amish in the 50's and 60's and
> produced a good amount of research on the Amish in Pennsylvania. (He even
> slept in a bed bag in the oldest daughters room during his stays) It was
> easier for him because he was a local and also a "Deutchy" or a local of
> German descent. He has told my alot about his stays which were also to help
> bring their schools to the then modern levels. He loved them and is still
> today friends with the family and is accepted freely among them.
> 
> "Historically, they have exercised their
> freedom to choose, whether or not the
> government has recognized that freedom.
> This has resulted in persecution,
> expulsion, and death. They share with
> the Jews the distinction of having been
> burned at the stake, or otherwise
> dispatched during the 1500's by
> Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists
> alike."
> 
> This is true and the Amish who first moved into Pennsylvania came form a very
> hard area to live in in Europe. The farms were small and hard to scratch out a
> living on. Not to mention all of the persecution and owing to more or less
> feudal lords that still amde life miserable. When they moved to the new world
> they basically thought that they had been blessed by God. Thus thier close and
> deeply felt ties to thier land.
> 
> 
> Ted Jones
> Connecticut
> 
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Can some one tell me how to contact an Amish mold maker located in Pa.
Thanks