By Kevin Williams
We've featured so many Amish-themed photos over the years, from beautiful scenery shots, to food shots, to cultural pictures. Trying to choose just one...or even just 5...wow, that's tough...but I thought I'd take a crack at it. These first two are sort of lumped together. We've seen so many buggies over the years. Of course the standard ol' buggies, but we've seen brown, white, and even yellow buggies and then there are the buggies that really are genius or creative. The Old Order German Baptist Brethren travel by tractor and by buggy and in some cases, as I spotted at one home, they'll make a hybrid:
All of these photos were taken either by my me or my wife, but one photo would have to crack my top 10 that was submitted by a reader. The Amish taking advantage of non-ATM walk-up banking in Berne, Indiana:
I've run this photo plenty of times here, but I think it illustrates so well the cultural clash between old and new among the Amish. Will that be thick or thin crust? Next page: Pizza Hut Amish, Cattle Drive Amish, solemn Petitioners and more! (divided this post into two pages to help with loading speed from all these photos)
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