Straight Outta Millersburg

Here's a big scene those of you who know me wouldn't expect.  No, not a classic punk rock club or skatepark.  This is a look at the Amish Country around Millersburg, Sugar Creek, and Berlin, Ohio.  During my fourth grade year, I actually went to school with some Amish kids, and we lived in a big farmhouse, which I loved.  For those who don't know, the Amish, and similar groups like Mennonites refuse to use today's technology in their every day lives.  Many travel around in their horse and buggies, like the one you see above.  They farm the land, and produce all kinds of home made foods, furniture, and other crafts.

In one of the videos I watched before picking this one, they said that the Ohio Amish Country now gets more visitors a year than Cedar Point, the biggest amusement park in Ohio.  That's over four million people a year that come to visit a big group of people who initially wanted to simple lifestyle away from today's modern world.  As I pointed out before, scenes have a way of just evolving, and often turn into something no one expected early on. 

I was last in this area of Amish Country in 2010, and I took a couple photos of horse and buggies that are now in an Amish store here in Kernersville, North Carolina.