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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Except for the hats and the all black suits, that picture could look like a 
1960's Southern church 'Camp meeting" tent revival .........

Thanks for the answer

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:

> From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] was It's almost over, now wending to Amish 
> response to aggression
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:14 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > That was all very interesting Susan.  I didn't
> know nuch of what you wrote.  'just a curiosity about
> the obvious.  The groups are not large.  How do they keep
> new bloodlines?. 
> Historically, rather poorly, but now that they are wiser,
> better.   But 
> for all the things they let themselves open to genetically,
> they win 
> environmentally:  things pretty common in the english are
> unknown to the 
> Amish:  "hyperactivity" (seen as: kid needs more
> work than average, 
> usually works slick as a whistle), autism, and social
> pathologies are so 
> rarely seen they are so far uncountable.  I can credit them
> and their 
> ideas (and patience) with the fact that I was able to rear
> an autistic 
> kid through the seventies and into the Marine Corps, where
> his ASFABs 
> stood at 98.  He is now an air traffic controller in the VA
> Air National 
> Guard.  Wouldn't have been their goal, but every uncle,
> aunt, cousin, 
> Dunkard or Amish, is proud of him.  I don't think it
> would have happened 
> that way in an english world.  So what they've given up
> in one arena 
> they've made up in another.  David (my son) wins.
> 
> >  Do people come from state to state or whatever to
> date and marry?
> >   
> Yes.
> 
> The German Baptists do it better though:  they have an
> annual meeting, 
> all members attend.  We used to snidely call it the 
> "Bring-Your-Little-Dunkard-to-Meet-My-Little-Dunkard"
> meeting when we 
> were kids.  But that group has always been more open to
> interaction with 
> the world and more apt to educate (note they have 6
> colleges, even), so 
> they caught on a lot sooner.
> 
> Annual meeting last year was held 2 farms away from the one
> where I grew 
> up, and how I wished I could have gone to the 
> Bring-Your-Little-Dunkard-to-Meet-My-Little-Dunkard
> meeting.  How one's 
> perspective changes over time!
> 
> Just went looking for a pic of annual meeting, try:  
> http://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/Brethren.html
> 
> The group discussed on that site is a notch 'up'
> from the group south of 
> Dayton, VA, which is itself 2 notches 'up' from the
> group I grew up in, 
> which was very conservative.  Not worth it to the incomer
> to try and 
> keep track of groups, too many.
> 
> SJ
> 
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