Mar 05 2009
Plain Secrets: An outsider among the Amish by Joe Mackall
Ever since I moved to Pennsylvania I have been fascinated with the Amish. Well, maybe “fascinated” isn’t the most appropriate word I guess it is more like “very interested”. Anyway, I can’t really just walk up to an Amish person and start asking questions, although I guess some people would, because that would be extremely rude and most unwelcomed I am sure. So, instead, I visit the good ol local library
One book I recently read, I have read dozens of books on the Amish, was titled Plain Secrets: An outsider among the Amish by Joe Mackall. In this book the author gives a glimpse into the tightly knit Amish family and community. Because of his friendship with a local Amish family he is able to show the rest of us, the “English”, how very fragile and yet how very strong the Amish people are. God, family, community that is what the Amish are all about. The Amish people are at once, simple, complex and complicated and even controversial at times.
This book is an easy read that will grab your attention from the first page to the last. Check your local library or Amazon for this book and if you would like to know more about the Amish check out the following link.
