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the lead their lives almost the same way they did 300 years ago. the shower, religious community in the us that originated in europe, their rules i called on and include adults baptism. and at times in strict communities the refusal of technological advancements. they wear old fashioned clothes and head coverings. and then have long beards spending time with the amish dislike delving into the past, the . the my name is keana slave all. i am married to martha miller slave boy. now. we

have 7 children. we are old order ami, and we live on a 94 acre farm. the we cried, a state of technology. we strive to stay away from that as much as you can. the more you keep away from us, the better we. we live just too much technology, just re problems 40 year old. you know, so as a farmer and the blacksmith is, children are between 5 and 15 years old. the slave all family lives in middlefield, ohio, in jo county home, one of the world's largest amish communities. the older homages or orient. you don't, we don't use vehicles for small businesses. so yeah that's, that's been a long time. tradition is usually horses

you know, way away the way we buy these horses together to work. 3 of them abreast is all what my dad, you know, i was from the employer we. we did. it's $530.00. am the 2 eldest sons, 12 year old marcus a 9 year old myron are helping their father in the stables before school life. according to the old fort, no means no colors to division or computers. electricity comes only from batteries and generators. dios owns $21.00 horses which he loans out for farm work and transport. besides that, he lives from selling his harvest and from his work as

a blacksmith. whatever feed i can raise, then i don't have to buy. it saves me $3000.00 a month. if i raise i got to thinking about this. well, $3000.00 a month. i. yeah, it's well worth it. that's $36000.00 a year. you know, that's literally like making money. you know, really, i mean if you save that money, you don't have to spend that you can get by it cheaper. so it's well worth. marcus and myron are always there to help they have to do their chores in the morning. they get up early in the morning and then feed all the land, them old and get ready and go to school and come back home and do it all over again . school starts at 830. it's 3 kilometers away.

so the respect and behavior is taught at a very small age that will lead them through the rest of their life. what do you teach them when they're young? what stays with them. all your life. the . there are $350.00, private amish schools across ohio. the honors pay school taxes that allow them to run private schools with their own teachers. whether at home in places of worship or at school in the middle field, people enjoy sing together. but only religious song the there was only one class which teaches children between $5.14. the bible takes up most of the lesson, explains teacher kathleen, slave all the we usually do

versus yours. and they usually do their writing 1st, spelling after lunch, and usually do your fee up until after 8th grade. when children turn 14, their education is over. put what have students want to continue? learning i didn't was never heard of someone or something. factories calendars, mason's too much. anything to kathleen? the bible has most priority. the 3rd that's the reason that was on our school is best for someone to teach them to by

when becoming an image. teacher doesn't involve lengthy studies in higher education. they begin as a teaching assistant accompanying lessons for 4 years. beyond that, there are several private courses on offer, as well as meet ups, where teachers can exchange experiences the just like it any other school. everyone loves recess. after school kids have chores awaiting them at home. 12 year old ramen slave all is no different. we just go home and it's basically whatever my, our dad's mom says was to work for some time to sleep. but no, usually we don't know homework. the amish. preserve centuries old tradition. the

john king is the son of an amish father and a non amish mother. he's very familiar with life and the community. he's been collecting, interesting and noteworthy artifacts from amish history. years ago, he and several members of the amish community founded this library and museum in middlefield. it houses over $300.00. the we founded this library in 2014, with the purpose of collecting and preserving the history of the amish. focusing on this community in northeastern ohio and also um, as history in general, we've been collecting old books bibles per books, articles of clothing, documents,

letters, some going back to the 16th century, all relating to on the history the and sure example of a bible that was printed in zurich, switzerland by the fro, shower printing firm that was printed in 1534. so it's a fairly early german printing the a and soon dos without faces or embellish mints are meant to discourage children from pride and vanity. as per the roots of the old order homage, not every community interprets these strict rules the same way, but certain values have remain done changed. these include a bond with nature and with horses,

as well as the practice of traditional skilled trades. this workshop produces kitchen and bedroom furnishings. range label implies 13 amish workers. since amish people are not allowed to own a computer. they receive their orders to a service contractor, who delivers the orders on paper. the countless machines are powered with generators and batteries. the community allows electricity for business operations, the order books are chock full, and we modernize a little bit more so than our parents. yes. i think every generation goes through that. but we try to see, you know, what's important to us is as far as in bodies, that's our mode of transportation. but in our work and our business, we also have drivers that drive for us to deliver our products to take us to measure jobs, etc. rates as a member of the old order, every member of the amish community,

you must decide for themselves how much they wish to adapt to the modern world. but one thing always remains certain. certain sounds before the business. every time i suppose to. sometimes we have one in ourselves of the re needs to be available 1st customers. this is why the old order homage permit telephones and answering machines. if it's for business purposes, but not at home, too much. technology disrupts family life. often times rate suffer and somebody calls will let it ring like rate. and so i see in the house you probably have to pick it up, you know, so ray and mary have 9 children between 6 and 20 years old. the youngest daughter also lives on the

farm along with her husband and child on that on there to the flu. you know, keep the house and then the husband, usually the one that is winter. he's the one that goes out with the type of job and brings money and support the family. the gender roles are accepted unconditionally, as per their interpretation of the bible. god comes 1st followed by men, then women and children amongst themselves. they speak, pennsylvania dodge, but it's actually more like a southern german dialect. that i usually raised my own. not my partner this year. so

yeah, i'm just buying and i guess the easy, it's times myself or that our i have in the morning when my own kids go to work. and before the school before lunch, mary quickly takes down the laundry. 14 people live here. i have about 6 floats. every time i do laundry calls, you know, all that. and the dark switching is that over there is usually around 5 loads every day. oh no,

it's just due monday, wednesday, and friday. traditionally, most people pray together before each meal. the lead with mashed potatoes is a frequent dish, the to it's an esteemed virtue among the homage to cultivate what the community needs with their own hands. but only 7 percent of this community can live exclusively from what their harvest yields. email is changing horses the

his wife, mary, and daughter rachel. take a taxi back home from grocery shopping. the stores are too far away for a horse and buggy. while i'm here to take a enos or his family to places they need to go to a guess they, if they want to go somewhere, this is further than a horse and buggy were taken. yeah, the jim route is who has been driving the sleep ball family for 12 years? no i, i wouldn't. i wouldn't want to be on a show i to used to the way of life. so i have and you know, i understand why they do what they do. it's is part of the how they feel they should live and you know, that's, that's fine. i have no problem. most of doing the

15 year old daughter, rachel finished school a year ago. now she's helping out on the farm. for the most part, she's responsible for the laundry and looking after the courses. what about the future monday, the latest is i still? yeah, i'm just there kurt. so friend of he knows arrives at the farm on his horse, granny. well, i am here does. uh he, this is my blacksmith. he puts up on tucson, my horse. that's a trim misspeak reissue of so right. chester isn't a farmer. he's

a construction manager and a sub contractor, arranging jobs for tradesman. he lives 7 miles away. the does not feel as you can see. she doesn't even for an inch. with $8000.00 horses in and around the middle field. there's always lots of work for blacksmiths. a profession being kept alive by the image community there's, there's almost no young english kids. interesting. not on the right term for it's work and that's not in the new generation you're looking to. not so many people do it out 5 years. there's been quite a few on the started signed bowl there, so there's a good night for you on on

the ground, he is all done an entire horse. you said costs $400.00 per horse. chester is on the way to his next errand. is bugging you. needs new wheels and estimated 370000 amish. people live in the usa, mostly indiana, pennsylvania, and ohio. the states have several 1000 bugs. that means plenty of jobs for a carriage go are like al yoder als grandfather used to own this workshop. the wheels purchased is buggy, are due today or you know, in the past only wooden wheels with steel were permitted. now most stomach bug use

have a rubber wheels and not just one piece, but our culture is be able to adapt. you know, and we have a spring rigid rules and a, we'd still live or try to make a living like we did an 18 hundreds. we couldn't, we couldn't compete in our businesses. we couldn't. so i think to me, the reason that we as a culture are still surviving is because we have been able to adapt to the economy and to utilize the social pressures we've been able to regulate the amount of technology we allow and still try to keep the balance in our family values. chester's wheels are ready, $1600.00 for a set of 4. 2 kilometers away.

chester and his family live on a small farm. he and his wife martha, have 7 children. they to follow the old homage or knowing at home with little technology, electricity, restricted to batteries, and generators, old fashion, washing machines, and heating with wood from the nearby forest. the even was during cova dan, in all this turmoil about, you know, uh you, that was worldwide. we've been able to retain a, a way of living that promotes in our peace. yeah, i don't think that's possible with the if you're always 247, if you're completely connected to social media and the outside world and even even businesses completely run with, you know,

program supply fee is against the communication. great. it's great for business. i'm so happy i can step back from it. and that's we. i keep my sanity the, in the early morning, he adds to his construction business. it's 20 miles away, too far for a horse and buggy. he takes up private taxi instead. he says he doesn't find the amish lifestyle, hypocritical for allowing modern technology and businesses and offices. it's allowed for business if i don't own it. so at home. no. and in order to succeed and make a living as a part or family and we can't compete. if we're out here trying to build houses

with hands saws and hammers and nails, we would have no job because it would take us way too long. and nobody could get ahold of us. you know, chester used to be a carpenter and bricklayer, according to a study by elizabeth town college in pennsylvania, over 80 percent of amish. businesses are very successful. i don't have a college education. i don't even have a high school diploma. but the education i have is on the job and learning from my masters and teachers. i think it's just because of our work ethic. we tend to start small. uh, and you'll offer our services or we work with our hands. there's always a demand for that. so it is very possible even with a grades of education for an issue. businessman to succeed

chester overseas several projects in the area. so rounding middlefield, one of them is the construction of this $2000000.00 villa for an american. businessman wayne just started here fresh out of school. he's the 14 year old son of chester's cousin, the . yeah, so he's, he's being paid about $15.00 an hour and that's, that's where it starts. and then as you gain more experience and so like my top foreman, the manage, the top managers in our, in our company,

are being paid about $32.00 in our and that this point so that, that constantly changes to accomplish teenagers are only allowed to keep a small part of their earnings before they turn 20. until then the parents receive their income. some of them continue to live at home, but now they pay rent for their room and board. another major difference within the amish community is their health care system. they use the same services as the general public, but they don't have health insurance. the community pays privately. chester and there's non homage friends. john. king rich are attending an auction. events like these are central to their health care. this is a benefit option and is something that happens quite regularly and our community is to raise finances, raising money for medical expenses. and what it is, is people just don't mean to sell

the tangible culture. we don't like to be dependent on government. so we don't want to accept any handouts, we do not pay into social security. we also don't get the benefits. we don't get medicaid or medicare, but we do within the community, we have some church or community funded programs where it's all non profit. and so for myself, i pay in about $200.00 every month. and that gives me facing coverage up to a $100000.00 a year. and that's just for my family. to day they're raising funds for a 10 year old homage. boy who needs in operation. the treatment costs $50000.00.

more than 250 amish. people have come along in, in our culture. there is a lot of, uh, we call okay. lawson flights. okay. yeah, the means for the, for the seat or the suit of the whole. okay. it means putting your individual desires of selfish desires to decide and doing what is good for the community. the treatments in hospitals and medical practices are covered through the so called armies fund and options like these the, the bidding was a success. they even manage to raise more money than was needed for the operation. $80000.00 in total the

see how much have no governing body that dictates what a states church districts should and shouldn't do. there is no official head of the church, such as the pope for the catholic church. however, there are bishops who are the spiritual leaders and heads of individual church districts. they decide how to interpret the old or don't. why believe their, their language, their clothing styles, the way they travel, the way they live, their lives at home without being connected to the public read without being dependent on the government for their security. i think they'll retain that even over the next 100 years. once a year founding members of the library and museum meet here, including chester, tom byler is the team leader. he's also administer in a business win from coach ranch in pennsylvania. not far from here or how 9 and

let's see. i'm here with the vehicle with us on we have a museum side once we get together and have a good time and learn new things and try to help parents, you know, communities, it just comes up to why they're so young. people learn from our heritage, from our history about where we have from heritage on so from germany and switzerland on side of us. we're coming back home in st. george, lot of dish white. this is coach ranch and where tom lives. now. he was 18 when he left his amish family, enjoying the us army. the with station that's of i'm stein, air base in germany for 2 years. at 22, he returned home, baptized and married. today he has 5 children. he's a volunteer minister and owns an antique store. well, i've always been excited about old things since i was

a boy. i like history. but i like the old handmade quality stuff. and there's so many things that are unique are handmade and it's amazing what the older generations, how they would invent something. there was no technology. the one thing it's interesting here is as i was going along, i liked glass myself, old glass, i low, rare glass and i clicked so myself. i came up with this case here. and i found this, this old glass figuring of, of the baby jesus. and mary, on the donkey, i put it here and i started thinking and i wrote down, take a good look at this baby. we are here because of him. so it's like a witness to people down the road from his antique shop. tom is just opened up a bakery we don't have a lot of uh, you know,

farming going on our community because of how it is with the farming industry. you know, the agriculture is that, like it used to be and the i'm a sure, very business oriented small business, you know, small family businesses that uh you know, that are run by families or friends and we work together as a team and that so yeah, this is our bakery little does bakery, and i like our model, it says, how can we make your day sweeter? by mervin tom's friends and family help out at the bakery. american customers are especially fond of the cream filled cakes.

tom and his family lived from the business earnings. his job is administer is voluntary. the every sunday, almost communities are 10 to 3 hour long church services in simple powers halls outside the town. tom has been administered here for 34 years. we believe in total of commitment when we marry, we don't believe in dollars. you can't be a member of our church and actually divorce we consider marriage one man, one woman lifetime. as it was ordained in the bible. yeah. we asked that they stay together for life. you know, it is pretty rare amongst our people to find any divorce. it can happen, but it's pretty rare. amish families have 6 children on average, each scene as

a gift from god. they all can, they can discontinue, having children can stop having children and, or for medical reasons. you know, we think that's okay. but we don't believe in abortion. know about the leasing songs from the house phone, a german language hymn book, that's the oldest of the and the baptist movement 1st printed in 1564. it's been in continuous use to this day. baptized members who leave the community are excommunicated from then on. they are allowed to remain in contact, but not to share a table with their own family. 90 miles away, lloyd and edna miller live with their 6 children. they run their farm on solar power. they have walls, sockets for electricity, a cell phone, and they ride a bike, send quite bikes. they live from their 50 dairy cows,

and the yields from their 40 hector farm. edna has all of the modern kitchen appliances per image community permits them. most of these people i would say do have some kind of a mix or some, some people that don't have electricity, then mixers like this, but they would be present the battery battery be attached to the back here. but yeah, for us it's do have electricity. so we just use the electricity it does these things. pragmatically, she's open to talking about otherwise taboo topics like sex and contraception. i think especially in our in my case we had our 2 to 1st children were c section were my c section. so the other 4 were born naturally, but the doctor told us it's a risk to have

a lot more children. so i think i, as for us, it was a, we just decided that's, you know, and so we did measures to not ship to prevent it. so that i think given the ladies is the woman's health is at stake. i don't, i don't think it's wrong to do that. if the women's health is at risk, but to just do it for a selfish reason like that, you just don't want to be bothered with more children. i don't think that's really right. but edna is also critical of the amish world. i don't want to paint a picture. that is always, people are just these perfect little pious people. they are not owings because there is, there are cases among the armies and it's, it's very sad because and that's what i was saying is when,

when you have people that don't have relationship, personally with god and then that that stuff happens. but there are, there are cases with and even fathers, sexually abusing their children. that has happened among the armies. and it's so sad. it's very sad, and it's a, it's a disgrace. her husband lloyd enjoys the self dependence of the amish live style. quite code came a lot of people panic then and they were so people aren't even sure where their food is coming from today. and those are, those are real life issues, real life issues and i think, you know, uh yeah, we're not completely unreliable on things from

on, you know, we buy some fuel, we buy it we but for the most part, we could be sell sustainable for quite, quite a long time, quite especially within the group, within the group of people that we personally, you know, we could survive a pretty good long time without any outside input. the pacifist homage refused to go to war for their country and the president. but they do respect to political leadership as ordained by god. i have never voted. i have never loaded for anybody. and that's a little controversial. among always people, we follow what jesus thought when he said that he, that takes the sword and defends himself, or it will be killed by the sword. and he also said that we should turn the other cheek. so it shows somebody that's not resistance. if i vote and i put the

commander in chief, he's the president, is the commander in chief and he goes, he's the head of the army that he calls the orders. i would be representing that. and although i have a higher respect for authority, i respect our president, i as break i respect our leaders of god ordained those peoples. and i respect that here to the family prays before each meal as is tradition. 2 of the 6 children still live on the farm daughter, julie and son jason the had no rides or e bike to go shopping. she says it's quicker and more comfortable than taking a horse. drawn buggy,

and anyway, the 12 miles over and back across the italy landscape would be too strenuous for a horse. she only buys what she doesn't grow in her own garden and fields the . i needed some bolts and stuff like stuff to read like flour and sugar so attractive and nice. but i don't, i don't need to buy them because i think it's just the ceiling. grow your own and i don't know if they're sprayed or all that you know at home. it's like a daily i no worries. edna only

visits the supermarket once a week. the, the miller's day begins early at 4 30 am. each day they milk, their 50 cows, the organic man can meet the cows provide, are in high demand. the millers are doing well financially. move prices are high, and the family can live comfortably from their profits. the youngest daughter, julie still works on the farm. my work too hard one day and take the day off the next days. once they complete school, it's teenagers have a chance to take a year off known as rooms, putting a friend that was to florida already. i don't really call that i would do

anything down there that i still do. not that i go down there. it's not just, i'm not just saying or she's not far from here. a group between 16 and 20 years old have a range to meet. now is the time to experiment with things that are otherwise forbidden, like drinking smoking and driving. at the end of this time, the young people must decide between modern life or on their side. so you're not necessarily under the ok mean. under the ok names are your names at that time, so that's i mean, your parents will monitor and make sure you're going to right that could utilize your kids sometimes tend straight away. the rooms for the day girl a girl to be

a boy. that's when you basically leave your parents on the weekends. so our friends, members of this group drink alcohol and smoke chance, you know, get to know that's when we start. so you are a 0 spring, a whole life, i guess. yeah. it basically stops for you after that for your member of the church in this group, views are so solidified that none are too quick to jump in. anything new the world has to offer the

every day we need good bias to guide us and we absolutely depend on our face to pull us through and, and i think it, we try to follow his teachings and everything he will get us to for sure. the we always are looking to improve the future and, and the more we teach our children respect, we discipline them to, to make them o b and everything is going to make the ami a better future. the amish live style is no longer as cut off, as it once was. the modern world has found its way in, but nevertheless, most of most people still hold on to their centuries old principles and values.

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