Amish Friendship Bread – Book 1 (Amish Grace)
Apparently the number of Amish romance novels has outstripped the number of Amish stock photos.
Amish Friendship Bread – Book 1 (Amish Grace)
Apparently the number of Amish romance novels has outstripped the number of Amish stock photos.
Isn’t “Amish Stock Photos” impossible on its face?
True story: 40+ years ago (delicate cough, hoping you’ll all ignore the length of elapsed time, and thus, my age), I went to the Amish Country (aka the “Pennsylvania Dutch country,” aka, Lancaster, PA. As you probably all know, the Amish don’t want their photographs taken. Anyway, I was there with my grandparents–my grandfather was a camera bug.
Sure enough, when we got back to “civilization,” every single image he took of them, their carriages, etc.–all came out black. Not other images, that were taken on the same roll. Only the ones of the Amish.
Woo-woo-woo-woo, woo-woo-woo-woooooooo (Twilight Zone Theme here).
I swear it–this is a true event. Downright Creepifying, ain’t it? (Thanks, Firefly).
“WHY do they always put the Friendship Bread on the very top shelf, where I can’t reach it?” Mary muttered to herself.
Also: note the Amish Friendship Bread Toaster in the background. 🙂
The image of a toaster plugged into a wall socket contradicted what I heard and saw of Amish when I visited my aunt and uncle in York County decades ago. The Amish are against connecting to the public power grid. They do not want to be dependent on the outside world (or controlled by it). But, with a little digging, I found they will use independent sources of power like batteries, diesel generators or solar power for practical things like buggy lights, electric irons, vaccuum cleaners, clothes washers, toasters but not for worldly things or luxuries like radio, TV or internet or anything that appears to compromise their independence. They will balk at too much dependence on electricity and other conveniences but they are not as absolute as I thought.