Amish Living: Lessons and Answers

By Pat Stone
Published on July 1, 1989
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Supermarkets highlight the fact that the Amish do interact with the outside,
Supermarkets highlight the fact that the Amish do interact with the outside, "English" world.
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Owning a phone is an unpermitted
Owning a phone is an unpermitted "yoke to the unbeliever." Using a pay phone, however, is perfectly acceptable.
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Barn raisings symbolize the self-contained, community side of Amish culture.
Barn raisings symbolize the self-contained, community side of Amish culture.
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The Amish method of rotating corn with hay and other crops helped lessen the effects of the 1988 drought.
The Amish method of rotating corn with hay and other crops helped lessen the effects of the 1988 drought.

It happened while Hannah was driving
Albert, David, Colt and Claude, four Belgian draft horses
that were pulling both the hay baler and the flatbed
loading wagon. I was behind on the wagon, grabbing the
blocks of fresh May hay the gas-powered baler churned out
and stacking them in a 3-3-3-2-1 pattern.

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