http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2009/07/03/rambling-through-irony-and-why-the-amish-may-yet-save-new-york/ The search for good decisions continues Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2009/07/03/rambling-through-irony-and-why-the-amish-may-yet-save-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-1145 Elinor Homann Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:20:00 +0000 http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2009/07/03/rambling-through-irony-and-why-the-amish-may-yet-save-new-york/#comment-1145 .Town of Columbus .....I have been talking my head off about bringing the Amish people here to our area of Chenango County and what a great hard working people they are..I am all for them They can bring our towns back to life. Wonderful to see them bringing back the old farms in near by Madison County and starting in Otsego as well..People who don't understand them open your eyes .. to see their buggies is so charming.SLOW DOWN CARS . God Bless them one and all !!!. .Town of Columbus …..I have been talking my head off about bringing the Amish people here to our area of Chenango County and what a great hard working people they are..I am all for them They can bring our towns back to life. Wonderful to see them bringing back the old farms in near by Madison County and starting in Otsego as well..People who don’t understand them open your eyes .. to see their buggies is so charming.SLOW DOWN CARS .
God Bless them one and all !!!.

]]> http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2009/07/03/rambling-through-irony-and-why-the-amish-may-yet-save-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Mary Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:13:12 +0000 http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2009/07/03/rambling-through-irony-and-why-the-amish-may-yet-save-new-york/#comment-824 Today, in 93 degree temperatures, I watched a contingent of Amish men and boys raise a barn in about 5 hours. Amazing! A previously empty field will soon be a thriving farm that will support a family. Our area, Madison County, has seen an influx of Amish and Mennonite familes and we could not ask for better neighbors. I have been in Upstate for 26 years and have watch its infrastructor crumble as industry after industry left the state. It is very heartening to see such revitalization happening because of very honest, hard working people. They have stores and businesses in their home and I think we should all consider giving them our business whenever possible rather than shopping at one of the "big box stores." Today, in 93 degree temperatures, I watched a contingent of Amish men and boys raise a barn in about 5 hours. Amazing! A previously empty field will soon be a thriving farm that will support a family. Our area, Madison County, has seen an influx of Amish and Mennonite familes and we could not ask for better neighbors. I have been in Upstate for 26 years and have watch its infrastructor crumble as industry after industry left the state. It is very heartening to see such revitalization happening because of very honest, hard working people. They have stores and businesses in their home and I think we should all consider giving them our business whenever possible rather than shopping at one of the “big box stores.”

]]> http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2009/07/03/rambling-through-irony-and-why-the-amish-may-yet-save-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-546 gkoeppel Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:18:40 +0000 http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2009/07/03/rambling-through-irony-and-why-the-amish-may-yet-save-new-york/#comment-546 Read how "upstate" made New York the "Empire State" (for better or worse), in a new history of the Erie Canal: "Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire" (DaCapo, 2009): www.amazon.com/Bond-Union-Building-American-Empire/dp/0306818272 Read how “upstate” made New York the “Empire State” (for better or worse), in a new history of the Erie Canal: “Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire” (DaCapo, 2009): http://www.amazon.com/Bond-Union-Building-American-Empire/dp/0306818272

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