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Perhaps German Martin Luther Bible, other religious texts (0:41). Amish farmer operating horse-drawn plow (0:49). Sprawling fields, farm houses, tree-covered hills of Lancaster County in Southeastern, Pennsylvania (1:04). Exterior of Amish home peeks out among trees (1:50). Close-up water-wheel operated water pump (2:06). Clothes dry on clothesline (2:19). Amish woman lays traditional quilts featuring Pennsylvania Dutch design over banister, another woman enters indoor “Dutch Oven” carrying peel (2:34). Group of women peeling string beans (3:03). Father rides with son on horse-drawn cart, young boy operates horse-drawn rake, plow (3:07). Women pump water into bucket (3:42). Aerial views of young boy as he operates horse-drawn rake, plow (3:48). Women set dinner table (4:25). Post-supper family chores: men head back into field, women sweep, tend to indoor plants (4:35). Woman polishes chest of china, woman works on quilt while sitting beside display chest (5:06). Camera pans bedroom, brightly colored clothes of young girls hang from pegs on wall (5:31). Young woman ushers dairy cow across road (5:45). Family record embroidered plaque on wall (6:18). 19th century Amish family cemetery (6:26). John Schmucker grave stone (6:44). Map of Upper Leacock Township; settlement patterns of early Amish settlers (6:49). Christian Herr/Hans Herr House (6:59). Other homes, Amish construction (7:20). Horse drawn buggy passes Ressler Mill (grist mill) (7:48). Amish covered bridges (8:07). Lapp Family Farm: benches stacked for service at family home, clothes for church dry on clothesline (8:22). Buggies with waving children along rural and town streets next to parked automobiles (8:47). Prayer space set up, empty buggies parked on road outside, sound of hymns from the “Ausband,” preacher speaks, testimonies shared by congregant members - illustrations of Amish church scenes (9:10). Post-service: men, boys, children go off to fellowship (10:45). Young man courts girl by taking her on buggy ride (12:00). Women quilting together (12:18). “The singing” where young people of community socialize (13:08). Education: young children in all black walk along road to one-room school house, boys and girls of one grade sit at desks while other age groups paint, do other activities, teacher from outside community makes way around room (14:22). Kids eat lunch, recess, boys play makeshift game of baseball with stick; girls play tag (16:06). Parked buggies, horses in pen, Amish men gathered at “Public Sale” of farm equipment (18:34). Young boys play Amish Corner Ball game (19:40). Amish interaction with outside world: montage families, farmers going into town; children try on shoes at the general store (20:05). Women, men tend to stalls at local farmers markets selling cured meats, cakes, flowers from their farms (21:11). Amish women in black cloaks line up to board bus into town (22:16). Harvest time: bags of harvested grain hoisted up into Ressler Mill (22:26). Tobacco field: workers harvest tobacco plants; young boys, women collect tobacco stalks onto wooden stake/ lat while man collects completed stakes on carriage (23:00). Woman in empty corn field (24:50). Group of men, neighbors come together to tear down barn that burned down in the winter (25:22). Empty parked buggies beyond charred remains of farm equipment, 200 men come to help raise new barn (25:49). Men work on support beams, women come around with refreshments (26:10). Near finished barn structure (29:58). Future of Amish culture, modernization and maintaining the homestead - buggy rides on highway, passes billboard for mass produced chicken (30:21). Damaged wheel, wagon of buggy in fatal accident, funeral procession (30:40).
