On Saturday, Sandra and Carl brought me to Yoder, KS. It is an Amish and Mennonite community near Hutchinson, KS. We went in several stores including the hardware store. We saw a few Amish or Mennonite people riding tractors, but as it was Saturday I'm sure they prefer to stay home and avoid tourists. They believe it is a sin to create likenesses of human faces per God's commandment not to make an graven images. For this reason, they do not like to be photographed and their children's dolls have no faces.
We ate lunch at Carriage Crossing, where several of the waittresses were dressed in the more traditional "plain" clothes of the Amish and Mennonite faiths. The pie here was excellent, although I was surprised that they didn't warm up the peach or apple pies. (I'm wondering if that's a Texas thing?)
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