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The religious zealots we visit on vacation (Salon)
How do Americans deal with religious zealots?
In the case of the Amish, many take bus tours through their compounds, buy
their goods, take snapshots of their kids from afar and make a weekend trip
out of watching their spiritual direction.
There are 250,000 Amish in America in hundreds of different communities, the
beautifully made and instructive film “The Amish” points out, in its Tuesday
premiere on PBS’ “American Experience.” But they are visited by nearly 20
million Americans annually.
Some of the Amish wonder if this is particularly good idea, since they have to
rub shoulders so much with “the English” -- as they call the outside world --
with their excess weight, leisure time and unusual questions.
Surrounded by the supercharged evils of modern America, they live in rural
settings of hard work and simplicity that must not be so different from life
200 years ago. But it's different enough to make some striking images: Bands
of one-room school-bound kids in bonnets and straw hats but carrying matching
new red mini-coolers lunchboxes; a scene of potato pickers at dawn that seems
right out of a Corot painting; kids playing outdoors in their old-fashioned
clothes but ...
Salon
