Word: amish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had begun to murmur when the State took away their plain little red schoolhouses, gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...
Last week more than 300 bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers, Pennsylvania scholars and historians, guests from as far away as Manhattan thronged the Landis farm to attend the formal opening of the Landis Valley Museum. Awed neighbors in flat hats and black bonnets greeted each other in Pennsylvania Dutch ("Wie bist du Heit?"-"How are you today...