A religious community in the us that originated in europe, their rules i called on and include adults baptism. And at times in strict communities the refusal of technological advancements. They wear Old Fashioned clothes and head coverings, and then have long beards spending time with the amish dislike. Delving into the past, the or the my name is chemo slave all. I am married to martha miller. Slave boy. Now, we have 7 children. We are old order on it and we live on a 94 acre farm. The we cried, a state auto technology. We strive to stay away from that as much as the more you keep away from us, the better we. We live just too much technology. Just bring problems. 40 year old, you know, citizens, farmer and the blacksmith is children are between 5 and 15 years old. The slave all family lives in middlefield, ohio in jo county home, one of the Worlds Largest amish communities for orient. You know, we dont use vehicles for Small Business hours, so yeah, thats, thats been a long time tradition is usually horses no way. Why, the way we buy these horses together to work 3 of them abreast is all what my dad you know, i was from the way we we did the kids 5 30 am the 2 eldest sons. 12 year old marcus and 9 year old myron are helping their father in the stables before school life. According to the old fort, no means no colors to division or computers. Electricity comes only from batteries and generators. Feed us owns 21. 00 horses, which he loans out for farm work and transport. Besides that, he lives from selling his harvest and from his work as a blacksmith, whatever feed i can raise, then i dont have to buy. It saves me 3000. 00 a month. If i raise i got to thinking about this. Well, 3000. 00 a month. I. Yeah, its well worth it. Thats 36000. 00 a year. You know, thats literally like making money. You know, really, i mean if you save that money, you dont have to spend so you can get by it cheaper. So its well worth. Marcus and myron are always there to help the they have to do their chores in the morning. They get up early in the morning and then feed all the land, them old, and get ready and go to school and come back home and do it all over again. School starts at 830. Its 3 kilometers away. The respect and behavior is taught at a very small age that will lead them through the rest of their life. What do you teach them when theyre young . What stays with them. All your life. The. There are 350. 00, private amish schools across ohio. The owners pay school taxes that allow them to run private schools with their own teachers, whether at home in places of worship or at school in the middle field, people enjoy singing together. But only religious saw the in. There is only one class which teaches children between 5. 14. The bible takes up most of the lesson, explains teacher kathleen, slave all the we usually do versus yours. And they usually do their writing 1st. Spelling, listening to how much we usually do. About santa rosa, after 8th grade, when children turn 14, their education is over. But what have students want to continue . Learning was never heard of someone or something. Factories calendars, masons too much. Anything to kathleen . The bible has most priority. The syrians are thats the main reason for this person around to teach them to by becoming an honest teacher doesnt involve link the studies in higher education. They begin as a teaching assistant, a Company Lessons for 4 years. Beyond that, there are several private courses on offer, as well as meet ups where teachers can exchange experiences the just like it any other school. Everyone loves recess after school kids have chores awaiting them at home. 12 year old ramen, slave all is you know, different. Uh we just go home and its basically whatever my, our dads mom says was to work for some time to sleep. No, usually we dont know homework. The amish, preserve centuries old tradition. John kings rich is the son of an amish father and a non amish mother. Hes very familiar with lives in the community. Hes been collecting, interesting, and note for the artifacts from amish. History. Years ago, he and several members of the homage community founded this library and museum in middlefield. It houses over 300. 00. The we founded this library in 2014, with the purpose of collecting and preserving the history of the amish. Focusing on this community in northeastern ohio and also um, a history in general. Weve been collecting old books bibles per books, articles of clothing, documents, letters, some going back to the 16th century, all relating to on the history the and sure example of a bible that was printed in zurich, switzerland by the 1st shower Printing Firm that was printed in 1534. So its a fairly early german printing. Age and soon does without faces or embellish mints are meant to discourage children from pride and vanity as per the roots of the old order homage. Not every community interprets these strict rules the same way, but certain values have remain done changed. These include a bond with nature and with horses, as well as the practice of traditional skilled trades. This workshop produces kitchen and bedroom furnishings. Race label implies 13 amish workers, since amish people are not allowed to own a computer. They receive their orders to a service contractor, who delivers the orders on paper. The countless machines are powered with the generators and batteries. The community allows electricity for business operations. The order books are chock full. Do we modernize a little bit more so than our parents . Yes. I think every generation goes through that. But we try to keep, you know, whats important to us is this for some bodies. Thats our mode of transportation, but in our work, in our business, we also have drivers that drive for us to deliver our products to take us to measure jobs, etc. Rates as a member of the old order, every member of the Amish Community, you must decide for themselves how much they wish to adapt to the modern world. But one thing always remains certain. Sounds before the business. Every time i suppose to, sometimes we have one in ourselves of the re needs to be available. First customers. This is why the old order homage permit telephones and answering machines. If its for business purposes, but not at home, too much. Technology disrupts family life. Often times re supper and somebody calls will let it ring like rate. And so i see in the house you probably have to pick it up, you know, so the rate and mary have 9 children between 6 and 20 years old. The oldest daughter also lives on the farm along with her husband and child that theyre there to the flow and you know, keep the house and the husband, usually the one that is winter. Hes the one that goes out with the type of job and brings money in the family. The gender rules are accepted unconditionally, as per their interpretation of the bible. God comes 1st followed by men, then women, then children amongst themselves, they speak, pennsylvania dodge. But its actually more like a southern german dialect that i usually raise my own. But its not part of this year. So yeah, im just buying them. I guess the easy is. Yeah. Or that our i have in the morning when my older kids go to work. And before the school before lunch, mary quickly takes down the laundry. 14 people live here. I have about 6 floats. Every time i do laundry calls, you know, all that. And the dark switching is that over there is usually around 5 loads every day. Oh no it. There it is. I just do monday, wednesday, and friday. Traditionally, amish people pray together before each meal lead with mashed potatoes is a frequent dish. The to its an esteemed virtue among the honors to cultivate what the Community Needs with their own hands. But only 7 percent of this community can live exclusively from what their harvest yields. Email is changing horses, the his wife, mary, and daughter rachel. Take a taxi back home from grocery shopping. The stores are too far away for a horse and buggy. Find you to uh, uh, take uh, as far as family to places they need to go to, to this thing that they want to go somewhere. This is further than a horse and buggy would take up. Yeah, the jim route is who has been driving the sleep ball family for 12 years . No. I, i wouldnt. I wouldnt want to be. Ill make sure i am too used to the way. Right. So that i have that, you know, i understand why they do what they do. Its is part of the how they feel they should live and you know, thats, thats fine. I have no problem with that. Doing the 15 year old daughter, rachel finished school a year ago. Now shes helping out on the farm. For the most part, shes responsible for the laundry and looking after the courses. What about the future is already underway . Is i still . Yeah, im just there kurtz, a friend of he knows arrives at the farm on his horse, granny. Well i am here. Does he this is my blacksmith he put so ill choose on my horse. Thats a trim misspeak reissue of so bright. Chester isnt a farmer. Hes a construction manager and a sub contractor, arranging jobs for tradesman. He lives 7 miles away. The does not feel as you can see. She doesnt even for an inch. With 8000. 00 horses in and around the middle field. Theres always lots of work for blacksmiths. A profession being kept alive by the Image Community theres, theres almost no young english kids, not on the right term for this its, its work and thats not in the new generation youre looking at. Not so many people do it out for 5 years. Theres been quite a few i started science ball in there, so theres a good night for you on the ground. He is all done an entire horse. You said costs 400. 00 per horse. Chester is on the way to his next errand. His buggy needs new wheels, an estimated 370000 amish. People live in the usa, mostly indiana, pennsylvania, and ohio. The states have several 1000 bugs. That means plenty of jobs for a carriage go or like al yoder als grandfather used to own this workshop. The wheels for chesters buggy are due today on the new or you know, in the past only wooden wheels with steel were permitted. Now, most damaged bug use have a rubber wheels. And not just funky spencer boat culture is be able to adapt. You know, and we have a spring rigid rules and we still live or try to make a living like we did in teaching hundreds, we couldnt, we couldnt compete in our businesses. And so i think to me, the reason that we as a culture are still surviving is because we have been able to adapt to the economy to utilize the social pressures weve been able to regulate the amount of technology we allow and still try to keep the balance in our family values. Chesters wheels are ready, 1600. 00 for a set of 4. 2 kilometers away. Chester and his family live on a small farm. He and his wife martha, have 7 children. They to follow the old homage or knowing at home with little technology, electricity, restricted to batteries, and generators, old fashion, washing machines, and heating with wood from the nearby forest. The even was during colbert, dan, in all this turmoil about, you know, how much like styles, hypocritical for a calling modern technology and businesses and offices its allowed for business if i dont own it. So at home. No. And in order to succeed and make a living and support our family, and we cant compete if were out here trying to build houses with can saws and hammers and nails, we would have no job because it would take us way too long. And nobody could get ahold of us, you know, chester used to be a carpenter and bricklayer, according to a study by Elizabeth Town college in pennsylvania, over 80 percent of amish. Businesses are very successful. I dont have a college education. I dont even have a high school diploma, but the education i have is on the job and learning from my masters and teachers. I think its just because of our work ethic. We tend to start small. Uh, and youll offer our services or we work with our hands. Theres always a demand for that. So it is very possible even with 8 grades of education, for an amish and businessman to succeed chester overseas several projects in the area. So rounding middlefield, one of them is the construction of this 2000000. 00 villa for an american. Businessman wayne just started here, fresh out of school. Hes the 14 year old son of chesters cousin, the. Yeah, so hes, hes being paid about 15. 00 an hour. And thats, thats where it starts. And then as you gain more experience and so like my top foreman, the manage, the top managers in our, in our company are being paid about 32. 00 an hour at this point. So that, that constantly changes too much, teenagers are only allowed to keep a small part of their earnings before they turn 20 until then the parents receive their income. Some of them continue to live at home, but now they pay rent for their room and board. Another major difference within the Amish Community is their health care system. They use the same services as the general public, but they dont have health insurance. The Community Pays privately. Chester and theres non homage friend john. King rich are attending an auction. Events like these are central to their health care. This is a benefit option and is something that happens quite regularly and our community is to raise finances, raising money for medical expenses. And what it is is people do tony items to sell the tangible culture. We dont like to be dependent on government. So we dont want to accept any handouts, we do not pay into social security. We also dont get the benefits, we dont get medicaid or medicare. So what we do within the community, we have some church or Community Funded programs where its all non profit. And so for myself, i pay in about 200. 00 every month, and that gives me facing coverage up to a 100000. 00 a year. And thats just for my thing. To day theyre raising funds for a 10 year old homage. Boy who needs an operation. The treatment costs 50000. 00. More than 250 amish. People have come along in, in our culture. There is a lot of, uh, we call okay. Lawson white. Okay. Yeah, we use for the, for the sake of, for the suit of the whole. Okay. It means putting your individual desires of selfish desires to decide and doing what is good for the community. The treatments in hospitals and medical practices are covered through the so called amish fund. And auctions like these, the, the bidding was a success. They even managed to raise more money than was needed. So the operation, 80000. 00 in total, the see how much you have no governing body that dictates what a States Church districts should and shouldnt do. Theres no official head of the church, such as the pope for the catholic church. However, there are bishops who are the spiritual leaders and heads of individual church districts. They decide how to interpret the old or dont. Why believe their, their language, their clothing styles, the way they travel the way they live their lives at home without being connected to the public grid without being dependent on the government for their security . I think theyll retain that even over the next 100 years. Once a year founding members of the library and museum meet here, including chester, tom byler is the team leader. Hes also administer in a business win from coach ranch in pennsylvania. Not far from here or how 9 and lets see him here. The vehicle leads us on. We have a museum side once we get together and have a good time and learn new things and try to help parents, you know, communities. Theres lots of why those young people learn from our heritage, from our history about where we have from heritage on so from germany and switzerland on side of us, were coming back home in for deutsch lot of dish white. This is coach ranch and where tom is now. He was 18 when he left his amish family enjoying the u. S. Army. He was stationed at the stein air base in germany for 2 years. At 22, he returned home, got baptized and married. Today he has 5 children, hes a volunteer minister and owns an antique store. Well, ive always been excited about old things since i was a boy. I like history. But i like the own handmade quality stuff. And theres so many things that are unique there, handmade and its amazing what the older generations, how they would invent something. There was no technology. The one thing its interesting here is as i was going along, i liked glass myself, old glass, i low, rare glass and i clicked so myself. I came up with this case here. And i found this, this old glass figuring of, of the baby jesus. And mary, on the donkey, i put it here and i started thinking and i wrote down, take a good look at this baby. We are here because of him. So its like a witness to people down the road from his antique shop. Tom is just opened up a bakery and we dont have a lot of, uh, you know, farming going on our community because of how it is with the farming industry. You know, the agriculture is that, like it used to be and the im a sure, very business oriented Small Business, you know, small Family Businesses that the you know, that are run by families or friends and we Work Together as a team and that so yeah, this is our bakery windows bakery, and i like our model, which says, how can we make your day sweeter . By mervin toms friends and family help out at the bakery. American customers are especially fond of the cream filled cakes. Tom and his family lived from the business earnings. His job is administer is voluntary. The every sunday, almost communities are 10 to 3 hour long Church Services in simple powers halls outside the town. Tom has been administer here for 34 years. We believe in total of commitment when we marry, we dont believe in dollars. You cant be a member and our church and actually divorce. We consider marriage one man, one woman lifetime. As it was ordained in the bible. Yeah. We ask that they Stay Together for life. You know, it is pretty rare amongst our people to find any divorce. It can happen, but its pretty rare. Amish families have 6 children on average, each scene as a gift from god. You know, can they can discontinue, having children can stop having children and, or for medical reasons. You know, we think thats ok. But we dont believe in abortion. Know about the leasing songs from the house point, a german language hymn book, thats the oldest of the and the Baptist Movement 1st printed in 1564. Its been in continuous use to this day. Baptized members who leave the community are excommunicated from then on. Theyre allowed to remain in contact, but not to share a table with their own family. 90 miles away, lloyd and edna miller live with their 6 children. They run their farm on solar power. They have walls, sockets for electricity, a cell phone, and they ride e bikes and quad bikes. They live from their 50 dairy cows and the yields from their 40 hecto