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The Amish

Photos taken at a Quilt auction in Wisconsin

Amish Faces Bonduel 2001 Amherst 2002 Fall 2002 Bonduel 2002 Bonduel 2003 Bonduel 2004 Amherst 2004 Fall 2004 Bonduel May 2005 Amherst May 2005 Bonduel Sept 2005 Bonduel 2006 Amherst May 2007 Amherst Fall 2007 Bonduel Fall 2007 Bonduel Fall 2008 Amherst Spring 2009 Amherst Fall 2009 Amherst Spring 2010 Amherst Fall 2010 Bonduel Fall 2010 Amherst May 2011 Amherst Fall 2011 Bonduel Fall 2011 Amherst May 2012 Amherst Fall 2012 Bonduel Fall 2012 Amherst Spring 2013 Bonduel Spring 2013

 

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Freeman Yoder
Bonduel, Wisconsin

Amish, North American Protestant group of Mennonite origin. The Amish have maintained a distinctive and conservative agricultural way of life despite the influences of modern industrial society.

The name Amish is derived from Jakob Amman, a Swiss Mennonite bishop. He insisted that discipline within the church be maintained by excommunication. This entailed the avoidance, or shunning, by the faithful of those excommunicated. Conventional social relationships with the excommunicated, such as eating at the same table, buying and selling, and, in the case of a married person, marital relations, were forbidden. The Amish, subject to persecution in Europe, migrated in the 18th century to Pennsylvania, where their descendants are called Pennsylvania Dutch (the German deutsch,"German," was misunderstood as "Dutch"). They then spread into Ohio, other Midwestern states, and Canada. A rural people, their skill in farming is exemplary.

 

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The most conservative are known as Old Order Amish. They dress in a severely plain style, using hooks and eyes instead of buttons to fasten their clothes.

 

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Amish buggy

They ride in horse-drawn buggies instead of automobiles, and the adult males wear beards.

 

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Religious services are held in homes; foot washing is practiced in connection with the communion service; discipline is enforced by shunning; and marriage with outsiders is condemned. Other Amish groups are milder in discipline and less set apart from the world. All share the practice of believer's, or adult, baptism and often refuse to take part in civil affairs—to vote, serve in the military, and so forth. The Old Order Amish numbered about 80,800 in the early 1990s.

 

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Amish girls
(Quilt auction was to benefit their school)

 

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Mennonite family
(somewhat less conservative in dress)

The Amish have sometimes come into conflict with the larger society. In particular, they have resisted compulsory education requirements as a threat to their separate way of life. In the case of Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), the state sought to require the children of an Amish family to attend school until the age of 16. The parents were willing to allow them to attend through the eighth grade but argued that high school education would make them unfit to carry on the Amish tradition. The Supreme Court of the United States agreed that their right to the free exercise of their religion is protected and that the state's concern for compulsory public education must yield to that consideration.

 

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Selling the furniture they made

 

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need a quilt?

 

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a rack to display it

 

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Mader and Mader auctioneers

in Memorium Robert Mader (1941-2006)

 

A ringman

 

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or buy a donut for the benefit of their school

Photos of the Amish Quilt Auction, Bonduel 2001

Amherst and Bonduel 2002

Fall 2004

Amherst Spring 2005

Bonduel Spring 2005

Bonduel Fall 2005

Bonduel 2006

Amherst Spring 2007

Amherst Fall 2007

Bonduel Fall 2007

Bonduel Spring 2008

Amherst Spring 2008

Amherst Fall 2008 - Ron's big announcement

Bonduel Fall 2008

Amherst Spring 2009

Amherst Fall 2009

Amherst Spring 2010

Amherst Fall 2010

Bonduel Fall 2010

Amherst May 2011

Amherst Fall 2011

Bonduel Fall 2011

Amherst Fall 2012

Bonduel Fall 2012

Amherst Spring 2013

Bonduel Spring 2013

Amherst Fall 2014

Amish Faces Bonduel 2001 Amherst 2002 Fall 2002 Bonduel 2002 Bonduel 2003 Bonduel 2004 Amherst 2004 Fall 2004 Bonduel May 2005 Amherst May 2005 Bonduel Sept 2005 Bonduel 2006 Amherst May 2007 Amherst Fall 2007 Bonduel Fall 2007 Bonduel Fall 2008 Amherst Spring 2009 Amherst Fall 2009 Amherst Spring 2010 Amherst Fall 2010 Bonduel Fall 2010 Amherst May 2011 Amherst Fall 2011 Bonduel Fall 2011 Amherst May 2012 Amherst Fall 2012 Bonduel Fall 2012 Amherst Spring 2013 Bonduel Spring 2013

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Photos of some of my Patchwork Quilts

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More Photos of the Amish

The Amish in Indiana

The Amish in Ohio

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