Guess who’s cashing in on fracking? The Amish

[packman]

2. I remember

going through Pennsylvania Amish country a few years back and stopping at a general store. It fulfilled my romantic view of the Amish with its wooden tourist stuff, jars of jams,jelly's, relish and candy. The men clerk were in their black and women in their pastel dresses. And even the cash register was an old hand - cranked on. Ah, the simple life, I thought. Then as I roamed toward the back of the store, an Amish man dressed in the garb opened a door and I glimpsed into the 20th Century going on in the back room-computers (many) with girls and men at their stations, printers, cables, monitors, steel desks - an office that would make any business proud. A customer caught my surprised look and told me that the local Amish had quite a catalog business and were making a fortune on running internet sales and shipping to non-Amish markets across the country.