Even Amish values aren’t recession-proof
Say it ain’t so — even the Amish fell victim to the seductive lures of the boom-time economy. Such is the hook of a depressing Wall Street Journal article by Douglas Belkin, “A Bank Run Teaches the ‘Plain People’ About the Risks of Modernity.” For some, the good life is a hot tub on the back porch and plasma HD flat screen. In a 20,000-person community of Amish in northern Indiana, fancy Dutch Harness horses and carriages lined “in dark velvet and illuminated … with battery-powered LE