From Europe to America -- Establishing the West Conestoga -- The four settlements: Mannheim Township, Upper Leacock, Warwick ; Earl, Leacock ; Cains/Compass ; Pequea/Mill Creek -- Names of interest in the West Conestoga from 1770-1800 -- Progressive trends of the West Conestoga -- True to the Old Order -- Families of the West Conestoga amd Mill Creek/Pequea from 1737-1810. Garber, Schantz, Johns, Erb, Rickenbach, Nafzigor, Kurtz, Rupp, Seiler, Linder, Shellenberger, Farny, Forney, Von Gundy, Showalter, Schmucker, Alleman, Stoltzfus, Borntrager, Schenk, Sommers, Yoder, Sharp, Kenegy, Benedum, Reinhart, Fisher, King, Beiler, Zook, Lapp.
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An account of the families ... who comprised the first Amish community in Lancaster County for about the earliest 70 years, or until 1810.
Amos trades up -- Eilenshpiggel and his shenanigans -- John the blacksmith visits the devil -- Tales tall and taller -- Graven images & the legends that grow around them -- Pennsylvania German humor -- A true ghost story.
What is family life? -- Amish beginnings -- Choices -- Marriage and family -- The young -- Work -- Church -- Discipline --Clothing -- The world -- Aging, illness and death -- Controversies -- People of peace.-- Odds and ends.
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Reading this book is like sitting down with Amish friends over coffee abnd listening as they answer every question you ever had about their lives and ways and beliefs. This book makes for compelling reading and is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning more about the Amish.
pt. 1. Telling the story -- "Drive the heathen out of the land" -- "Some hot headed ill advised persons" -- "The same spirit & frantic rage" -- "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity" -- pt. 2. Retelling the story -- "I never heard one word of it till it was just over" -- "A mighty noise and hubbub" -- "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces" -- "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath" -- "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty" -- "A zone of vicious racial violence" -- pt. 3. Killers and abettors -- "The most respectable of men" -- "They had possession and would keep it" -- "Eternal shame & reproach" -- pt. 4. Death and reconciliation -- "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime" -- "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe" -- "Who was left to mourn for these people?"
This journal article recounts the experience of two Salisbury Township residents, Freland Phillips and John Buzzard, who were involved in a battle in Wyoming with Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in 1867. They were part of an Army detachment from Fort Kearney that was assigned to protect men who cut wood for the fort.When attacked, the soldiers took cover in a corral made from the wood of wagon boxes and were able to hold off the Indians until help arrived. This incident occurred during what was called the" Red Cloud War."
A railroad for the "Southern End" : Pictures, timetables, rare documents and all the news of the Little, Old & Slow, Pennsylvania's first narrow gauge railroad
A long time ago, a narrow gauge railroad was built through southern Lancaster and Chester Counties, in Pennsylvania, bringing an alternative to horses, buggies and ox carts, on muddy deeply rutted roads. "Ole Peachy," as many of the locals called it, served no major industries. Instead, it made do with poultry, eggs, butter, cattle, cream and passengers, becoming a vital link for the farmers of, and visitors to, the "Southern End ." This is the story of how , despite great odds against it, this short line managed to survive for 47 years. [from the book cover]
Except: "It soon became clear that she didn't want a resaurant experience; she wanted to eat in an Amish home. I explained to her that such places are not regulated by the state and hard to find out about, and that the menu will be little different; there is no particularly distinctive Amish cuisine. 'Yes, yes,' she interrupted, 'but doesn't it taste better down on the farm?' As this interaction demonstrates, tourists often seek farm-table meals. They bring particular expectations to eating in an Amish home. A mystique surrounds the experience. Food is expected to taste better; eating is deemed more authentic, and cooking the outcome of traditional, hard-working labor. It is as if food cooked and served by Amish on the farm takes on the positive qualities often associated with the Amish themselves: simplicity, old-fashioned (in the best sense of the word), time-consuming (Amish as the original 'slow food' movement), and wholesome (presumed to be organic, but usually not). It amounts to a kind of Amish 'gastro-authenticity,' if you will...An extended vignette from my research elaborates on this theme."
