David Warner, one of The Journalism Shop's new members, recently had this piece in the Harrisburg Patriot-News on the growth of Amish people in Pennsylvania, and some of the people who work with them. From the story:
Chubby drives his extended-cab truck, pulling a big metal trailer, down the rural road at a pace that even a horse and buggy could match. He winds up through the hills and past the cornfields, wondering about the health of the rain-parched corn as he goes.
His first mission: driving a farmer the several miles to Klinger Lumber in Elizabethville to pick up a big box of screws and other supplies. The farmer, 32, and a father of five, is building an extension on his barn for his Holstein herd, which grazes on pasture land on the 120-acre farm.
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