By Kevin Williams
Some interesting Amish in the News this week, so let's get right to work!
These buggies are more high-tech than meets the eye...
AMISH BUGGY TECHNOLOGY: Â Popular Mechanics decided to explore the world of Amish buggies and came up with a pretty good piece. I can tell you from my experience that Amish buggy makers are very gifted craftsmen who have to use a lot of sound science in producing the buggies. Â A Mennonite buggy maker in Virginia once explained to me the psychics of crash safety (which this PM article kind of skipped over) and how the buggies - opposite of car safety - are designed to throw the occupants off in case of a crash. If a two-ton car is going crash into a buggy, the wooden buggy will be no match, so the occupants best hope is to be ejected and land in a shrub or some other soft spot. Â Anyway, this PM piece really walks the reader through all the ins and outs of designing a buggy adopting all the latest allowable technology. Â Click here.
AMISH ONION PATTIES: Â A columnist with the Lincoln, Nebraska newspaper decided to use up a bunch of winter onions using an Amish recipe. Â Mmmmm, this sounds like an awesome recipe. Click here.
AMISH AND LAW: Â Okay, this article might sound like a snore but, especially for newbies here, it is a pretty good primer on the ins and outs of when the law and the Amish faith butt up against one another. Â Curious about the Amish and taxes? Â The Amish and puppy mills? Â Click here to take a look.
MOM MURPHY'S AMISH CHEESY CHICKEN CHOWDER:Yum, sounds like an awesome winter recipe! Â
Um....who is Mom Murphy? Â Well, kind of a fun story it turns out...92 year-old woman decides to publish a cookbook. Â Wonderful story, everyone needs to live their live to the fullest as long as they are able! Click here to read more about her cookbook.
SARA MILLER'S AMISH CORNER: Â This is a superb monthly column in the Geauga Maple Leaf, a local paper in Geauga County, Ohio. Â The column is a wonderful insight into the goings ons in this large Amish settlement. Â But, this week's, she publishes a diary from what sounds like Amish friends or family in the brand new Vermont Amish community. Â Since that settlement is so new I've not had a chance to check it out yet or correspond with anyone there, so this provides super insight. Â And it can be described in one word: SNOWY. Â Click here to take a look.
An Alabama TV station gave this rave reviews.
DUTCH OVEN AMISH CLEANING TONIC:  WHNT, a CBS affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, says it does a great job. Click here to read their review. Has anyone tried it? If you want it, you can buy it from Amazon here.
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