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by Donald B. Kraybill


  26. http://christianhomekeeper.org.

  27. For examples, see a map distributed by the Valley View Cheese Company in Conewango Valley and another for northern Chautauqua County.

  28. Hurst and McConnell, Amish Paradox, 177.

  29. Thomas, “Amishville,” 117–18. David Schwartz died in a car accident in 1972; in recent years, Amishville has become a campground rather than a farming operation.

  30. Letter to the editor, Family Life, March 1991, 2.

  31. Blank, “Being a Witness to Tourists,” 154.

  32. O. Vernon Miller, “Shipshewana, Indiana,” Budget, Feb. 1, 1989, 16.

  33. Sarah Weaver, “Millersburg, Ohio,” Budget, Sept. 28, 1983, 14.

  34. Kraybill, Riddle of Amish Culture, 292.

  35. Eitzen, “Hollywood Rumspringa,” 151–52.

  36. “The Amish,” American Experience, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/amish/.

  37. Eitzen, “Reel Amish,” 44.

  38. See Downing’s “Witnessing the Amish” for a discussion of these two films.

  39. Laikind, “Amish Diaries: Why Do You Care About the Amish?” See his other articles, beginning April 17, 2012. Laikind’s Stick Figure Productions produced Devil’s Playground, Amish in the City, two special programs, and the ten-part series Amish: Out of Order for National Geographic that aired in 2012. Stick Figure Productions sent out the five teams to recruit subjects for Amish in the City.

  40. This discussion does not include personal blogs that record a visit to an Amish settlement as part of a family vacation—the virtual equivalent of the postcard a vacationer sends to family back home.

  41. The Amish Blog, www.lancasterpa.com/amishblog/.

  42. The Amish Cook from Oasis Newsfeatures [Blog], www.oasisnewsfeatures.com/. The column is authored by Lovina Eicher and Kevin Williams.

  43. Amish America [Blog], http://amishamerica.com/.

  44. Amish Internet Blog, http://amishinternet.com/.

  45. Amish Life’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/AmishLife.

  46. For two examples of blogs written by ex-Amish people, see http://aboutamish.blogspot.com/ and www.irawagler.com/.

  47. Eitzen, “Hollywood Rumspringa,” 151.

  48. Quoted in Stoneback, “Retrace Harrison Ford’s Footsteps on ‘Witness’ Tours of Lancaster County, PA.” This article for the Morning Call (Allentown, PA), Sept. 4, 2010, was picked up by newspapers around the world.

  49. Stoneback, “Retrace Harrison Ford’s Footsteps.”

  50. Ibid.

  51. Turco, “Tourism in Amish Communities,” 143–44.

  52. Trollinger, Selling the Amish, 77–79, 108–10.

  53. J. Hostetler, Amish Society, 317.

  54. Buck, “Boundary Maintenance Revisited,” 233.

  55. Chhabra, “How They See Us,” 3, 11, 12.

  56. D. Weaver-Zercher, Amish in the American Imagination, 185–89.

  57. Hannah Lapp, “Labor Department vs. Amish Ways,” Wall Street Journal, April 10, 1997.

  58. S. Peters, Yoder Case, 152.

  59. Maoz, “Mutual Gaze,” 235.

  CHAPTER 22. PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS

  1. Diamandis and Kotler, Abundance.

  2. Giddens, Consequences of Modernity, 21–45, describes this radical “disembedding” of social relationships and social mechanisms from time-space contexts as the key characteristic of late modernity.

  3. Kraybill, “Amish Encounter with Modernity,” 32–33.

  4. Bauman, Liquid Modernity, 29–38; Lipovetsky, Empire of Fashion; and Wagner, Modernity as Experience and Interpretation, 24–38.

  5. Jefferson Graham, “Apple Sells 3 Million New iPads,” USA Today, March 19, 2012.

  6. Igou, “Amish in the Year 2100.”

  7. Kathy Hedberg, “Amish Family Forges Not-So-Traditional Path in N. Idaho, Embracing Cars, Computer,” Lewistown (ID) Tribune, Jan. 30, 2012.

  8. Epps, “Amish and the American Oyster,” 275.

  9. “Amish Believers: A Queer Religious Sect Near an Indiana Town,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 2, 1888; “Odd in Many Ways,” St. Paul (MN) Globe, April 2, 1897; and “A Queer People and Their Ways,” Odgen (UT) Standard, Nov. 20, 1909.

  10. D. Weaver-Zercher, Amish in the American Imagination, 51–52, 67–81.

  11. Coddington, “Great Plain.”

  12. Cathy Horyn, “Amish Fashion Week,” New York Times, Jan. 23, 2011, http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/amish-fashion-week/.

  13. “24 Amish-Inspired Fashions,” Trend Hunter, www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/amish-inspired-fashions.

  14. Some of the ideas in this section are adapted from Kraybill and Bowman, On the Backroad to Heaven, chap. 9.

  15. Epps, “Amish and the American Oyster,” 274.

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