U.S. religious country, if any. With the many churches in the Bible Belt, the Mormons in Utah, the Quakers in upstate New York, there are also the Amish in Pennsylvania. The idea was launched to spend a weekend! Department Lancaster County, for two days completely anachronistic.
The Amish are a Protestant community who decided to live folded in on itself, to escape persecution resulting from the Reformation. Originally Swiss-German-Alsace, they arrived in the seventeenth century in the United States, to find their promised land. Hence the name Strasburg for a village that we visited! So in theory they are refusing all contact with the outside world, living without leaving their community, are very religious ... For example, they do not use electricity from the outside world, children are in their own schools. They are almost exclusively farmers, but when you approach a little closer, we realize the wire which they walk constantly.
They do not use electricity from the outside world but produce them with diesel and propane, have solar panels, batteries, thus have fridges ... The moral is safe because no wire connecting them to the outside world. Following the same logic, they have no television, no radio, no car, but instead of buggies "for not being able to move very far and thus do not break the link with the family / community." These buggies were the highlight of our trip! County roads are widened, allowing the Amish to drive without getting doubled in all directions by car. Their clothes are made by the mother only in solid colors, men wear straw hats and women a kind of white cape.
A little trick to find an Amish home: "When the laundry drying on a wire outside the house." What seems normal here in France is "tourism" is still a difference between living American and French. In the realm of the dryer, it is difficult to find a clothes dryer! We slept Saturday night in a guest house, run by the Amish "light", as they are intouch with the outside world, and they have electricity in this part of the house ... Similarly, they use a phone in the garden, have a bank account. There was also able to connect the computer to watch the movie Witness (to remain in the atmosphere), but total failure of this mission, a dark story of codecs ...
But we've been somewhat embarrassed by talking to the grandfather. He seemed very
disillusioned over the new generation that uses mobile phones for example. It must be said that young people, before deciding to be baptized and to return to the community, have the opportunity to see the "real world" driving a car, dress as in 2008. Then they decide whether to return to the community, either to live in the outside world. But almost 95% of Amish youth remain, since they do not know the outside world, and would then cut ties with their families ... Similarly, on Sunday morning, the family received the community to act in the barn (160 people, and full of buggies). We then parked the car so they are not visible from the road ... We then wondered if this family was not just on the fringes of the community, since not living according to their strict guidelines.
Then, for themselves back into the swing of real life, towards Hershey to visit the chocolate factory the great American brand! Disneyland atmosphere a little! "
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