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Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research to introduce the Amish to their non-Amish neighbors. In the last decade, New York State has had the fastest-growing Amish population. This work highlights the diversity of Amish settlement in New York State and the contribution of New York's Amish to the state s rich cultural heritage.

The second edition of New York Amish updates settlement areas to acknowledge...

Train Up a Child explores how private schools in Old Order Amish communities reflect and perpetuate church-community values and identity. Here, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner asserts that the reinforcement of those values among children is imperative to the survival of these communities in the modern world.

Surveying settlements in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, Johnson-Weiner finds that, although Old Order communities have certain similarities in their codes of conduct, there is no standard Old Order school. She examines the choices each community...

Yes- You can. This book contains proven and simple steps to teach you how to fix your marriage By the end of this book, I am going to make sure that you are happy about your marriage. Marriage is an achievement, but also a challenge. This is a frightening time for couples because we are living in a time when more than half of all first marriages ends in divorce; 60 percent of second marriages fail. What makes the numbers even more daunting is that nobody seems to understand why our marriages have become so fragile. This book will guide you on the path...

How one Native American healer with an unbreakable spirit triumphs over fierce invaders, ravaging diseases, and the utter loss of everything she holds dear.

"Singing Bird: Molly Ockett: A Maine Legend" captures colonial New England at its most turbulent time. As conflicting cultures collide, native people summon courage, wit, and tenacity to survive death and displacement by land hungry Europeans. Rising above her grim destiny, Molly Ockett lives today in the imagination of New Englanders.

With authentic historical detail and richly drawn characters, the book charts the life of one...