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Taken at the Gordonville Mud Sale. Mud sales are auctions to benefit volunteer fire companies in Lancaster County.
Lancaster County is home to a large Amish population, and mud sales are one of the few places where the Amish mix with "English" (i.e., non-Amish) folks. The Old Order Amish are fascinating folks, who live in close-knit communities and avoid many modern technologies, including cars and most uses of electricity. You can also easily recognize them by their dress and especially the signature hats.
Mud sales offer a way to see - and touch - many technologies they do use, such as horse drawn buggies, plows, and other agricultural machinery. Moreover, at mud sales the Amish are said to tolerate some discreet photography, to which they are normally very much opposed.
I don't think the auctioneer is Amish, and certainly not Old Order. But he blends in quite well.
We drove out into the countryside Saturday to visit a friend who has a winery and lambs and came upon this fine fellow on a country road.
This was a conservative Amish home(I had been in it) until a schism forced the conservatives to migrate(no they aren't Trumpsters). They aren't supposed to vote anyway. This community was so isolated that they didn't see many newspapers. Open buggies and isolation limited exposure to the English.
A group of Amish men gather their hay the old fashion way!
Their religion does not permit them to operate the sophisticated equipment most farmers use. That said - several larger farms sub-contract their harvesting to commercial outfits in order to do a week's job in hours!
We went to the Amish last Saturday and this young man was bringing in a trailer load of strawberries from their fields.
On an Amish farm in Ohio, these horses tried to make it difficult for me to include them in this shot.
We made a daytrip to Kalona, Iowa last week-an area that has a significant Amish population. We like to go to visit the several Amish-run country stores there. And of course I like to make some photographs if possible while respecting their wishes not to have photographs made where individuals are recognizable. If there is any doubt I don't make the image. This opportunity presented itself as we were leaving one of the stores. I think it is one of my favorite images I've made lately. It perfectly captured the mood of the dreary, rainy day as some locals were coming to shop.
The Amish father was holding his younger daughter in watching the migration of a large group of snow geese in Middle Creek, Pennsylvania
Yesterday we rode over and bought more fresh picked strawberries from the Amish. The little children were hauling crates back-and-forth in their wagon from out in the fields.
I shot this at an auction in the Ohio Amish country. Post processing was done using Photoshop. From Flypaper Textures I used Boudins Tide, Breslau, and Sisley Sky. From 3 Lil’ Owls I used 210 Chalky Bits 2.
I took this shot at an Amish toy shop on the back roads of the New York Amish country. I processed and textured it in Photoshop.
Photo taken near Armagh, (Indiana County), PA. Indiana County has a large Amish community that pursues a simpler lifestyle, operating farms and other businesses in ways that have changed little in the past century.
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Taken at the moving of a hundred year-old Amish house from Arthur, Illinois to near Chesterville, Illinois.
This is a conservative or low Amish topless buggy clipping along in-2F temperatures. In this area there are two Amish settlements competing for souls and money. Conservative Amish don't allow tops on buggies which limits travel and marks a line of difference with the liberal Amish with their fancy warm buggies.... The conservative group is of southern Germany heritage and language. They have allowed fewer capitalist innovations involving technology and ways of making a living. The other group, after a schism, has embraced global capital flows of value and technology by relying on one of the big three Agricultural corporation to develop a vast system of feeder cattle factory farms. Large semi-open structures have been built to confine a large number of head in a small area (called a CAFO). (there are images of these structures in the Amish folder/album. These "liberal Amish" contract with the outside English people to house their cattle and to work for the Amish. Us "English" provide transportation and ability to use certain technologies that make these huge operations possible. Their wealth has swelled and they have put the money toward the building of large fancy homes that look like suburban houses. The low Amish require people to work on less capital intensive farms. They are not allowed to work in factories. They get by with labor intensive small scale agricultural practices and more humble or low in their consumption. Their homes are rag tag cobbled together structures that are "messy". The high Amish tear down old early 20th and late 19th Century homes to build fancy "McMansions". This leads to another plane of competition to "be in this world but not of this world" Being not of this world means being humble or plain. The liberal Amish think that the less technologically up to date Amish are being prideful and vain or showing off in trying to be "more Amish". The liberal or high churches wear brighter colorful clothes of pink or purple while the conservative churches wear black, dark blue or black. This visual boundary maintains a marriage and social barrier requiring endogamy. Flows of women and capital remain within each group ensuring wealth and social bonds remain within each group. There is a hot cold war between the two groups. The farm in the background is a large English family/corporate farm
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We went to Penn Yan, NY today. There is a large Amish population in that part of upstate, NY.
Found in southern IA. Classic with rakes and other implements that are still used with horses. Hard to see in the distant barn is a buggy that could be horse driven.
There is a small tractor in the shed at right. They are allowed to use limited power equipment. But looking at the surround of this place there were no power lines to the barns and livestock areas.
The Amish are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships, closely related to but distinct from Mennonite churches, with whom they share Swiss Anabaptist origins. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann.[2] Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.
I found the scooter before I met the child who owned it...a perfectly charming 9-year old boy who asked me if my grandchildren had scooters, too. I didn't tell him that they weren't "in style" in the English world of today.
There's a conclusion to my illusion
I assure you this
There's no end to this confusion
If you let it wish you well
Soul to sell
Highest bidders, can't you tell what you're getting?
There is a light to all this darkness
I will tell you this
There's redemption in you asking them just why it is
Some answers are better left unspoken when you know you ain't getting any...
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In the Amish religion each church district is autonomous in that it selects which technologies and proscriptions it will "enforce". This community is one of the Lowest and most conservative. Given their proscriptions I doubt there are many lower. You will notice the buggy has no top. Year around they can't have tops on their buggies. They still do traditional agriculture for a living and don't allow factory work or outside non-farming jobs with us English folk. The open large door indicates that they do not bale hay but gather and store it loose. They also gather corn by binding them into bundle to dry in the field. The high and more liberal Amish in many church districts no longer do any real dirt farming. They might rely heavily on factory work or large industrial farming building large CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations)