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    Amish Country
    Amish Country
    Amish Country
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    Amish Country

    By Bernard Fancher

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    “Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth,” Jacob recited quietly to himself, “and vegetation to bear seed, and fruit trees to yield fruit according to kind...” He paused, considering the implications of the words to follow, before continuing, “...the seed of which is contained within, and upon the earth.”

    Reflecting further upon the Biblical message, Jacob Mast leaned back and felt the sharp table edge press ever more insistently against his spine as he sat with his eyes closed and considered the years, as well the fruits of his labor. He remembered the first time he’d come to explore this place, and how the first time he heard them the words “Genesee Valley” spoke to his mind of Genesis—and so seemed, given his quest and disposition, to suggest the possibility of finding and restoring a lost Eden.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard Fancher
    Release dateMar 27, 2011
    ISBN9781458080738
    Amish Country
    Author

    Bernard Fancher

    I live on a small and mostly defunct farm in western New York, where the events of a typical day include writing and walking my dogs--items not necessarily listed in order of priority. (At least not from the dogs' point of view.)

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      Amish Country - Bernard Fancher

      Amish Country

      by

      Bernard Fancher

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      Copyright 2011 Bernard Fancher

      All Rights Reserved

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      This ebook is licensed and distributed by Smashwords, and may not otherwise be reproduced or disseminated without the author’s permission. Thank you for respecting the terms of this arrangement.

      Disclaimer:

      The story that follows is fiction. Except where clearly historical, the people, places, and events portrayed are works of the imagination.

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      Amish Country

      They came for the land, a land of rundown farms and abandoned homesteads, on which old houses and barns and unpainted outbuildings stood sagging and bleached and withered on back roads, land left largely mute and devoid of human care and nurturing contact, but which still spoke softly, perceptibly, to what once had been—and so promised, with ample attention and work, to be again.

      Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, Jacob recited quietly to himself, and vegetation to bear seed, and fruit trees to yield fruit according to kind… He paused, considering the implications of the words to follow, before continuing, …the seed of which is contained within, and upon the earth.

      Reflecting further upon the Biblical message, Jacob Mast leaned back and felt the sharp table edge press ever more insistently against his spine as he sat with his eyes closed and considered the years, as well the fruits of his labor. He remembered the first time he’d come to explore this place, and how the first time he heard them the words Genesee Valley spoke to his mind of Genesis—and so seemed, given his quest and disposition, to suggest the possibility of finding and restoring a lost Eden.

      Yet it struck him as prideful to think so now, even though the Deacon thought it no great sin in retrospect, but somehow permissible, as the product of a divinely-inspired, if slightly iconoclastic, nature.

      In truth, neither man would have spoken, or welcomed, words chosen from such a lexicon. But still wishing to convey something of that meaning, the Deacon had thrust one hand towards Heaven

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