Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-304) and index.
Contents
Introduction to a way of life -- The European connection -- Coming to America -- Pioneering in the American West -- Agriculture and everyday life -- Church and community government -- Home and family -- Phases of life -- Amish schools -- School management -- Conscience in conflict -- Interaction with outsiders -- Joining and leaving the faith -- Controversies and disputes -- Memorabilia -- Legends -- Misfortunes -- Malicious attacks -- Criticisms -- Speaking out: the Amish explain -- Tributes -- Chronology of Amish history.
Summary
Intimate view of life in the Amish world with more than 150 letters and journal entries, poems, stories, and riddles.
The experienced botanist or Indian physician, being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants--their properties, &c. and the method of preparing and using them. 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners
Amish immigrants of Waldeck and Hesse : a record of 263 immigrants, with a record of their descendants to those who were married by about 1865, plus historical records of Germany, shiplists, etc
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126) and index.
Contents
A Lancaster Amish wedding -- Other wedding practices -- A Woolwich Mennonite baptism -- Choosing a minister : Holmes County Amish -- An Old German Baptist Brethren annual meeting -- Meetings of other groups -- An Amish Sunday in LaGrange County, Indiana -- A Big Valley Amish funeral -- The auction at Bart -- Holidays, family days and working days.
Summary
Discusses the weddings and other special occasions of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite people, answering questions about baptisms, worship services, funeral practices, and holidays.
Records of principles pertaining to the Old Order Amish Church School Committee or Delegation as of September 2, 1937 : reaffirmed and approved through counsel of the Committee August 9, 1961
