It was exactly five years ago today that I took this photo of our Amish neighbor planting corn in the late-April sunshine. Add in the faithful dog, and it’s an iconic spring scene in Ohio’s Amish country. A majority of the three to four million tourists who visit Holmes Co., Ohio, every year come for such nostalgic vistas as this. Horsedrawn plows and planters bring back fond memories for our most senior folks. It’s a way of life that is rapidly disappearing, even in the largest Amish population in the world. Today, fewer than 10 percent of Amish still farm.
“Spring in Ohio’s Amish Country” is my Photo of the Week.
© Bruce Stambaugh 2020
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Great post 😁
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Thank you.
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Beautiful. I remember similar pastoral scenes in Upstate NY where there is also a large Amish population.
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Thanks. Yes, many of the NY Amish came from Holmes Co.
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Great photo! Hope you are doing well.
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Thanks, Marland. Other than allergies, I am well.
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Wonderful!
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Sad isn’t it that the Amish way of life in the form of farming is slowly disappearing. Some day photographs like yours will be all we have left to explain a way of life that once was among the Amish. But thank goodness for people like you who take these photo’s. Thanks Bruce
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Thanks, Pam. Like most other cultures, the Amish change their ways to survive, usually gradually.
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