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Videos are a popular part of this site and allow people to "experience" aspects of Amish culture in a way words and still pictures can't capture. We have an exciting package of educational, insightful, and hopefully fun "video tours" available this year (August 2009 - June 2010). Amish and Mennonites are generally familiar with my work, and they trust me to present their environment in an educational and respectful way. Because of this, I’m often given photographic access to areas that many other journalists don’t get. Most of the videos are 5 – 7 minutes in length, so they’re pretty "watchable", although some may be a bit longer. Read more
Gone, But Not Forgotten.....
My hometown, Middletown, Ohio, is home to a mall, a dying mall in its death throes. It's sort of painful to watch. It's like watching a suffering pet, but with a pet at least one has the option of putting it down. With a mall, you just witness, you just witness it slowly slide into oblivion taking many memories with it. One by one, favorite stores have left....Our little mall used to have a Gap, Waldenbooks, a Spencer gift shop, your general mix of mall amenities. But those stores began shuttering slowly beginning 20 years ago when our town lost the corporate headquarters of our largest employer. Now the mall sits virtually empty, a Sears and Elder-Beerman (known as Bon-Ton out east) holding down the fort and a few flea-market type vendors in the concourses. Our city should play veterinarian and just put this mall out of its misery. A friend of mine recently brought up a restaurant that was in our mall during its heyday. Does anyone remember: York Steak House? These Ruby Tuesday-type restaurants used to be all over the midwest, primarily in malls, but they are gone now. Only one survives and that is in Columbus, Ohio. I can't even remember going there much, but its presence added to the nice mix at our mall. So add York Steak House to the "gone but fondly remembered restuarant list" along with Bill Knapps, Cambridge Inn, Duff's Smorgasbord, The Hot Shoppe, Howard Johnsons, Zantigo and others....SIGH, sad...anyone else have any others to add to the list?
Cancer and the Amish....
This is an interesting study released by Ohio State University. A large scale study of cancer cases a group of Ohio Amish point to significantly lower cancer rates. The study is interesting, but the article - in my mind - fails to answer some key questions. The actual study may answer these questions, but the article doesn't. For instance, how would the Amish in northern Indiana, Lancaster County, PA, or rural Illinois compare? I think to really draw strong conclusions about cancer and the Amish you'd need to look at a larger cross-section. The sample size for the study seemed adequate, but just using Holmes County would seem to provide limited value. Click here to read the article about the study.
