What It's Like to Be Amish: Reflections of an Amish Farmer, Grandfather, Historian, and StorytellerSam is a keeper of stories, many of them centered in the Amish farms, schools, and gathering places of eastern Lancaster Co., Pa., where he has lived his entire life. Told completely from inside the Old Order Amish world, Sam's stories cover amazing ground, including: the hazards of driving a horse and buggy on public roads on a dark night; the drama of a bank robber hiding in Amish country; the process of "going in with the boys," or being old enough

His historical interests flourished and he compiled a Red Notebook full of his “Four Kurtz Brother Immigrants” genealogy findings

Contains emigrants from more than thirty Palatine (Germany) villages

Frequent names in the index are Fox

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The book includes Christian and secular observances of the holiday such as carols

The author reading the poems is available on cassette tape (#3162)

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Henry Melchior Muhlenberg

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But all three stay—first because of the storm that changes to a blizzard and finally because they all have a reason to stay

knowing that any information she might hope to find existed in one and only one place—the aging brains of her aunts and uncles