An afternoon in Amish country - York Daily Record
An afternoon in Amish country - York Daily Record
It's a Saturday afternoon in early November and the tiny village of Intercourse in Lancaster County is abuzz with tourists and locals, almost as if to prove that this little town deserves its name as a spot for business and cultural exchanges.
Visitors stand on street corners, chatting on cell phones and snapping pictures with their digital cameras that they'll download on computers. But the very thing that has drawn these technology-laden tourists to town couldn't be further from the world they know.
Many of them come because of the Amish — plain folk who choose to wear bonnets and suspenders and travel through town on scooters or by horse and buggy rather than by automobile because they adhere to a religion that shuns modern technology.
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It's a Saturday afternoon in early November and the tiny village of Intercourse in Lancaster County is abuzz with tourists and locals, almost as if to prove that this little town deserves its name as a spot for business and cultural exchanges.
Visitors stand on street corners, chatting on cell phones and snapping pictures with their digital cameras that they'll download on computers. But the very thing that has drawn these technology-laden tourists to town couldn't be further from the world they know.
Many of them come because of the Amish — plain folk who choose to wear bonnets and suspenders and travel through town on scooters or by horse and buggy rather than by automobile because they adhere to a religion that shuns modern technology.
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