Cashton Amish
Research: Cashton Amish
I visited Wisconsin this week in order to meet some of the local Amish folk for
my upcoming Pebble Creek series (Harvest House, 2012). I’m so glad I did. Not only are the Wisconsin Amish lovely people, but they’re very different from the Amish communities I visited in Indiana.
And isn’t that to be expected? Afterall, if you came to Texas, you’d find things vastly different where I live in a small town in the hill country than where I used to live in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. To some extent people are the same–true. We have common beliefs and roots. But other things change with the area around you.
I could have read about Cashton, Soldiers Grover, and Baraboo on the internet … but I couldn’t have seen how to make a rug on a loom, or visited a furniture store, or talked to an older Amish gentlemen as he explained about his grandchild who was sick and in a local hospital. Those are things I needed to be here to experience, and I’m grateful that I did. Now when I boot up my computer and write–I hope I’ll be able to share with you the heart of the Amish people in Cashton and the surrounding area. You can let me know how I did, next June.
V~
ps – a big shout out to Anita (Amil’s Inn), Kathy (Down a Country Road) and the fine folks at Inn at Lonesome Hollow for their help in connecting me with local Amish in their area.