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The Amish Comes To Folk Culture In NY

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When it comes to folk culture, it makes me think of the Amish and back home in upstate NY. Everyday life was what we today call normal, but then when us kids saw the Amish, there were many questions. The biggest one that came to my mind and the mind of many others was "How do they survive with what looks to be so little?". As I grew up, I have come to realize that what looks to us as little, to them was a lot. Amish live by following what the bible has taught them for generations. A lot of them don't use electricity, plumbing, HVAC, contraception, or even a vehicle like ours, but yet they have lived all these years through all the elements and disasters. They have lost members of their community due to
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