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Join in the fun and catch some Christmas Spirit while you enjoy a Taste of Amish with this wonderful opportunity to be part of an Amish Flavored Christmas Tea.  Get your girlfriends, family and partners together for an afternoon of enjoying each other's company while experiencing an Amish Flavored Christmas Tea with items handmade by Amish Ladies.  All part of learning and doing along New York's Amish Trail. 

AMISH FLAVORED CHRISTMAS TEAS

When: Saturdays: December 3, 10 and 17,2011; 3:30 pm

Murphy's Wine & Gourmet Shop

18 Main Street

Cattaraugus , NY, 14719 42° 19' 47.3124" N, 78° 52' 7.0932" W

716-257-9215

See map: Google Maps

Murphy’s Wine & Gourmet Shop sits along the brick lined Main Street in the village of Cattaraugus. Read more about Murphy's Wine & Gourmet Shop

Saturday, September 24, 2011

10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

CRUISE IN - held at the Leon Fire Hall.  Come Cruise in wtih your antique, classic or favorite summetime ride.  Clubs are welcome.  Cruisers will receive a ticket for a door prize which is a brand new television donated by Myers-Wade/Ellington Agency.  50/50 and other raffle prizes for Cruisers.

Town Picnic, bring a dish to pass, meat is provided by the Leon Fire Commissioners and the Fire Department/Auxiliary.  Open to the public.  50/50 and other raffles.

Saturday and Sunday, September 24^th & 25^th from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mager Mountain Alpacas will open their farm to Celebrate National Alpaca Farm days.  For nearly a decade, Mager Mountain Alpacas has become the premier alpaca farm of Western New York.  Visitors from across the country and around the world have come to Mager Mountain Alpacas to see, touch and learn about these magnificent animals.  Paul and Sue Mager ensure every visitor enjoys an alpaca adventure.

Amish Whoopie Pies Recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening
2 eggs
4 cups flour
1 cup baking cocoa
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1 cup sour milk
2 tsp. baking soda
1 cup hot water

Directions:
1. Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs.
2. Sift together flour, cocoa, and salt.
3. Add to creamed mixture alternately with sour milk.
4. Add the vanilla and dissolve soda in hot water and add last. Mix well.

The 11th Annual Leon Fall Festival and 3rd Annual Extreme Cowboy Event will be held on September 24, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to ??? 

Registration for the Cowboy Event starts at 8:00 a.m.

There will be crafters, Taste of Amish, Museum and Historic Church will be open all day, homemade ice cream, Music will be provided at the Gazebo by County Gospel Sound from 12 Noon to 4:00 p.m.

About the Amish

Old Order Amish use no electricity, no running water and dress in plain clothes of grays and blues.
Their cooking stoves are powered by propane, kerosene or wood. They use kerosene lamps.
They never work on Sundays and rotate church meetings at various homes within their districts.
Their children traditionally speak German until they start school at about 6 years of age where they are taught English.
They go only until grade 8 then they go to work with their family.

The Amish – WHY???  Female Response

Here is a little bits and pieces of our Old Order Amish.  We believe in having our own private Churches and our own private schools, etc.  We go through first to eighth grade in school.  Have to pay our own school taxes plus help the English pay their school taxes which I really don’t think is quite fair, but if that is how it shall be we want to be satisfied too.  We have no electricity, have to work hard to make a living but imagine that is healthier for us than to just play around.

There are many questions about the Amish Culture and even more answers.  While the questions are only natural, some of the answers are less than correct and others downright misleading.  Some are well meant, some make the Amish look better than they are and some worse.  Some authors of books have done a fairly thorough research and others have done a good job of whipping up some exciting details.  Having said that, here is my perspective on why there are Amish and why they live as they do.