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...enough to strait-jacket Kirk Douglas with this type of worn-out Western. Warner Brothers errs even further by creating a nutty Druid-like sect of tree worshippers who sport Amish hats and stand around righteously in the path of falling redwoods. Californians are admittedly capable of almost anything, but this is just too much to take. Then, in the agonizingly protracted struggle between timbermen and believers, Douglas goes gooey and joins the Druids (who have given up their ethical principles and taken up arson...
...years ago, visiting her native Pennsylvania, Composer Wickham got the idea of writing an opera about the Amish and their hexes. There was a hill known as Hex Mountain; why not have it inhabited by an operatic hexer? She spent three months researching, two months writing her libretto and composing her score...
...Memorial Hall saw the world premiere of Florence Wickham's The Legend of Hex Mountain. The legend: if the witch Hexi uses her black powers to save a human life, she loses them. But when her son gets in a jam, is threatened with death by the infuriated Amish townspeople, mother love triumphs. She saves him, is threatened with burning at the stake herself. Before that can happen, there is a flash of dazzling light and the ragged hag emerges in shining white, a new woman. She leaves the village for a new life with...
Yoder filed suit because he has had the ban placed upon him. To be "mited" means that a former good member of the Amish Church has gone astray from the Amish interpretation of the Bible, and although he may continue to sleep in Amish homes, he is shunned. Members are advised not to eat with the offender, to refrain from any business dealings or associations with him, and in general to disregard...
This letter is not to condone "miting"; it is rather an explanation to help uninformed readers understand the situation. . . . Yoder repeatedly has shown himself out of harmony with the home-and peace-loving Amish. He has himself admitted that he is a saloon adventurer, and any respectable denomination frowns upon such caperings. He has shown himself to be temperamental and incompatible. This is the complete opposite of the life which a Christian should live and which the Church of the Amish teaches. Despite this, Yoder has insisted on remaining an Amishman, continues to wear a beard and wants...