The Amish Country of Pennsylvania

In 1987, I had a chance to visit Dr. Boyce Jubilan, a colleague at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of the Philippines, who was taking graduate studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at that time. Lehigh is a small private university in Western Pennsylvania and famous for its engineering school and its alumnus, Lee Iacocca.

During that visit, together with Gwen, his friend and fellow grad student at the Department of Psychology, we drove to Lancaster County, the Amish region of Pennsylvania where we ogled at the Amish. So far as I know, the Amish in Pennsylvania are Dutch-descended people who still has a way of life similar to the time when they arrived in the United States. So they don't use modern machineries and electricity - but are very productive as farmers. Illinois has also an Amish region in Arthur, 60 miles south of Champaign.