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Handcrafted America, Amish Handcrafters
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| You’ve read about it. Perhaps you’ve even caught glimpses of it in the cropped photos of a magazine or in the images of a movie. But nothing quite prepares you for the sublime serenity that envelopes your senses as you turn off the Interstate and make your way down the two-lane blacktop, bordered on both sides by lush, green pastureland and neat, orderly farms. Occasionally, in the distance, you may see a far-off figure in dark attire slapping the reins behind a hardworking mule, the rich, dark earth turning even darker behind them. And as you continue on amid the rolling, rural countryside where the Plain People live, you roll down your windows to be pleasantly greeted by the sweet smell of newly mown hay. You take a deep breath and sigh. Immediately the tension leaves your body and a feeling of relaxation envelopes the very air around you. You have entered one of the peaceable kingdoms of Amish Country.
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