Plain and Amish Author:Bernd G. Langin Most of us in the Western world know of the Amish only through newspaper features on Amish barn raising or spring plowing. Many of us have seen the film "Witness". or one or more documentaries on the Amish. A few of us have needed to slow down behind one of those "horse-drawn vehicles" of which the road signs warn us in... more » Amish areas.
The author has found a way to help the reader enter into the life of an Amish community - experience with them their special moments at home, at work, in school, in worship: their hopes and fears, their fortitude and foibles, their keen wisdom and admonitions, their conclusions about the whirlwind and insatiable society on modernity.« less