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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:55 PM, sjc wrote:
> As to Amish/Arizona, there are a few year-round retired sorts and  
> quite
> a few winter visitors somewhere called "Sunnyslope", which I admit to
> never having tried to look up until now, DeLorme puts it right in
> Phoenix, which seems odd but is not impossible.  Probably some really
> small old housing or trailer park (they can afford and they can get
> back/forth on foot), like they go to at Pinecraft, in Sarasota.  And a
> brother-in-law of mine, Amish from IN, is currently 'north of Phoenix'
> this winter building a house for another Amish person, but I don't  
> know
> how far north.  So there are some, but there will almost never be
> significant populations where they cannot follow their farming
> traditons, being on the soil and working it are very much a part of  
> them.

This house in which I type is in the Sunnyslope area of Phoenix. It  
was originally an area to which eastern doctors sent their tubercular  
patients. About a mile west of here there are some small, humble  
houses. I believe some of them to be catalog houses. There is also a  
trailer park a couple miles away.