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It is fall in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, and Jacob Stoltzfoos is working his field much the way his forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A DARK INHERITANCE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Jacob and his family are Old Order Amish. They belong to a community that lives at the edge of American society, with spiritual values rooted in Pennsylvania-Deutsch soil. Most of the 20,000 Old Order Amish living in Lancaster County are descended from the 200 German-Swiss farmers who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A DARK INHERITANCE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

The News and Sentinel has been chronicling Colebrook since the paper was established in 1870. Fred and Esther Harrigan, John's parents, ran the paper for many years. For several years after John bought the Coos County Democrat in Lancaster, 30 miles south of Colebrook, he competed with his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TIME BOMB EXPLODES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

When the shooting began, staff members at the News and Sentinel were putting their latest issue to bed, and Harrigan was on his way back from Lancaster, where he had been filling in on that paper for a staff member whose mother had died. "I heard the whole thing unfolding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TIME BOMB EXPLODES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

Overpopulation, overdevelopment, herbicides, pesticides, deforestation, poaching, rampant pollution--and let's not forget we on Earth haven't the foggiest idea how to dispose of spent nuclear fuel safely. Just think, in 20 years or less, we'll have our very own Mars! CHERYL Y. ESBENSHADE Lancaster, Pa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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