Telephones are banned from Old-Order Amish homes for many philosophical reasons. However, business demands have dictated a compromise in telephone usage. "Community phones" can be found in a shanty at the end of a farm lane or in the barn, but never in the home.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Framed by the birds in the sky and the rich earth below, Lancaster County's Old-Order Amish farmers use horse and mule-drawn plows to till their fields as they have for many generations before them.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Despite agricultural mechanization, tobacco remains a highly laobr-intensive crop, ideally suited to the farming methods used by the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This Amishman and his son are harvesting the tobacco leaves, which are cut and hung on lathes to dry - one of the first steps toward the eventual manufacture of cigars.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
