A branch of the Anabaptist movement, commonly associated with voluntary abstention from electricity and other modern conveniences, use of
plain clothes and head coverings, and an emphasis on farming. Their language, Pennsylvania Dutch, is used at home and in church. Pennsylvania Dutch is a derivative of German. Some
Amish children attend Amish-only schools, while others attend public schools. They tend to be highly community and family oriented. The majority of the Amish live in
western Pennsylvania, middle Ohio, and middle Indiana.
Mattie
Yoder makes fruit jam every summer, bakes bread weekly, and
sews her own dresses in accordance with her Amish background.
Eli
Lapp used the public neighborhood phone to call the bishop, since Old Order Amish rules prohibit telephones inside homes.
The tourists giggled with glee, trying to snap photographs of the fleeing seven-year-old
Amish girl in her plain dress and head covering. They didn't understand that Amish tradition regards photography as sinful.