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Plain Secrets Plain Secrets An Outsider among the Amish (cid:1) (cid:2) Joe Mackall Beacon Press, Boston Beacon Press Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts - www.beacon.org Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. © by Joe Mackall All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the uncoated paper ANSI/NISO specifications for permanence as revised in . Text design and composition by Susan E. Kelly at Wilsted & Taylor PublishingServices Library of Congress Control Number: 2007924329 For Dandi, now and forever, and in memory of Sarah Nothing, I think, is more peculiarly characteristic...of American society...than its inability to see the Amish for what they are. Oh, it seesthem, all right. It sees them as quaint, picturesque, old- ff fashioned, backward, unprogressive, strange, extreme, di erent, perhaps slightly subversive. And that “sight” is perfect blindness. Wendell Berry The Unsettling of America contents Author’s Note xi Introduction xiii one Pop Cans and Doomed Pigs 1 two The Leaving 19 three Remembering Sarah 39 four “You be careful out among them English.” 57 five The Midnight Table 69 six Underground Railroad 91 seven The Lot Falls 107 eight The Amish FBI 129 nine Time and Space 147 ten Deadly Sacred 167 eleven Another Leaving 187 twelve The World Inside, and Out 195 Epilogue 201 Acknowledgments 203 Notes 205
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