"In the accompanying text, Donald Kraybill - author of the highly acclaimed Riddle of Amish Culture - tells the often surprising story of today's Old Order Amish. His introduction provides a sweeping overview of Amish life in North America and explains how a traditional people have managed not merely to survive but to flourish in the midst of modern life. In thirty-five vignettes throughout the book, Kraybill explains Amish views on issues ranging from "Childbirth" and "Women Entrepreneurs" to "The Riddles of Farm Machinery," "Sowing Wild Oats,"and "The Politics of Separation." His concluding essay examines why modern observers are so drawn to the Amish and their traditional values.Old Order Amish details the rigors of hard work, the strength of family and community, the discipline of the religious Ordnung, and the ingenious Amish compromises with modernity. Here at last is an authentic portrait of the Amish - in striking photographs and honest accounts of their daily concerns and enduring traditions."
Gordonville, PA (261 Centerville Rd., Gordonville 17529)
Publisher
C.S. Lapp,
Date of Publication
c1991.
Physical Description
xv, 655 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Isaac Z. Lapp began this work and compiled until his death; completed by others.
Includes index.
Summary
This history of the Pennsylvanian Amish schools begins with the history of how Pennsylvania was founded, where and how the school movement expanded, the many influences that developed the public school movement, detailed history of early one-room schools and then leads up to the 1950 school problems when a number of plain people-mostly Amish-were jailed. [from the publisher]
