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I broke away from my traditional Amish community. Here's what grabbed me most in the modern world — and what I miss.
We've now moved to Idaho, where I'll be an EMT for the firefighters working the huge wildfires there. We still identify as Amish, but now we're connected to the grid system. We have electricity ...
Chillicothe Gazette15d
The Amish: 'Every day, every hour of your life you are living for God'
The Amish are a group of plain people who are similar ... it's not profitable enough for them, they move away for economic reasons," Burdge said. "Normally, new settlements are ad hoc things." ...
PBS8y
Genetic Drift and the Founder Effect:
The syndrome is common in the Amish because of the "founder effect." When a small part of a population moves to a new locale, or when the population is reduced to a small size because of some ...