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Muffy Aldrich
Muffy Aldrich, Editor of Salt Water New England: The Thing Before Preppy, since 2010. And a 12th Generation New Englander.
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Wonderful ! Horses and dogs are the best people.
ReplyDeleteLove this picture. The only Amish I know of are in Pennsylvania and Ohio so I wonder are there some in New England. Most admirable people. And love those straw hats.
ReplyDeleteWe have those people here in Maine.
DeleteSuperb photo! Thank you, so very much! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteThe Amish display fine craftsmanship in furniture making and metalworking. They might often run their clotheslines from the back porch to the peak on the barn roof. The clothes dry up where the wind blows.
ReplyDeleteHolmes County Ohio has a large Amish population. We once passed through there on the way to visit beautiful Kenyon College. There were, yes, quite a number of clotheslines strung between the house the barn and even way up to the trunk of a tall tree. I wondered if there is an informal, friendly competition among Amish to see who can string their clothesline the highest.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, a common sight when I was growing up outside of Kutztown, Pennsylvania in the 70s and 80s.
ReplyDeleteKind Regards,
Heinz-Ulrich
They say there actually is clothesline competition and it’s not always that friendly. Clotheslines being cut are unusual but not rare.
DeleteGetting stuck behind a horse-drawn buggy in upstate New York d during a college visit instantly deterred our oldest child (son) from applying to or attending Colgate. He declared central part of New York State to be "the middle of nowhere." True to form, he ended up at Northwestern.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most beautiful places in the world “The middle of nowhere”
DeleteWherever that might be
I live in an area with a fairly large Amish population. Hard working and great craftspeople. My kitchen cabinets were all custom built by an Amish man when we remodeled, they will probably outlast my house. What a lot of people may not realize is that all Amish are not the same in regards to how they live. The ones around here are a pretty strict order, but some areas they have completely different rules about how they live. It's all dictated by the bishop of the particular area. The Amish community around Lancaster, PA (which seems to be the most well known) is more "middle of the road" Amish. I was very shocked to see some of the things they were permitted to do as opposed to the ones living near me. RE: the clothes lines--there was a particular house that we (my mother and myself) drove past every week to get groceries and my mom always had to look to see if the laundry was out! We got a chuckle at it hanging out in some of the worst weather.
ReplyDeleteI was documenting an eighteenth century house in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania when a horse-drawn wagon driven by two young Amish boys drove by the property (they were bringing lumber to an adjacent historic barn). The sound of the horses and wagon in the otherwise quiet countryside was absolutely beautiful and evocative.
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