Word: lancasterism
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DIED. ALEXANDER (''Sandy'') MACKENDRICK, 81, director; in Los Angeles. Joining England's Ealing Studios as a scriptwriter in 1946, Mackendrick went on to direct the nimble Alec Guinness satires The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955). His major American credit: the biting Burt Lancaster- Tony Curtis...
I decided to focus on Pennsylvania's Lancaster County because it has a large population of Amish and because it's the only place I'm certain the Amish live, thanks to that movie Witness. I figured I'd put out a call to the Amish's publicist and hear...
Kraybill told me the churches next year will rule on the use of Rollerblades, which the Amish of Lancaster are increasingly getting into via another loophole, involving rules on rubber wheels for transportation. This, I think, could be a boon for Lancaster tourism. Sure, handcrafted furniture and farm-fresh produce...
If any Amish do leave, they could join a migration of farmers from Lancaster, where land prices have skyrocketed, to Wisconsin, where many Amish are now dairy farmers. The Lancaster farmers who have stayed are increasingly going organic, not for religious reasons but because they have found that the public...
The Amish are even finding themselves at the forefront of science. A genetic-disease research project at the University of Maryland is focusing on the Amish, since they keep detailed family records that go back generations. And though the Amish tend to be suspicious of psychology, a new mental-health...