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Harrison ford amish12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The county has one of the largest Amish populations in the United States, according to John Aungst of the Lancaster County Historical Society.īut the rest of the world rubs against traditions. More than 5,000 Old Order Amish live in Lancaster County, as do a few splinter sects, each consisting of about 100 or fewer members. They speak English with an accent and tone that is generally described as Pennsylvania Dutch. They often hold their church meetings in their homes. They go to school only through the eighth grade. The most traditional, Old Order Amish, have no electricity or phones in their homes. The followers of Jacob Amman, a Swiss Mennonite bishop who broke with the Mennonite faith in 1693, they have long been farmers in Lancaster County. The Amish, who are known for their dark, severe clothing and their simple ways of living, do not welcome publicity. And it was in a way betraying the Amish - because they knew how the Amish felt about it."ĭirector Peter Weir and his cast, including Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis and Alexander Godunov, came to Lancaster County last spring and summer to film a story about the clash between a big city cop who comes to live among the Amish after a young Amish boy witnesses a murder in a Philadelphia train station restroom. ![]() Two miles away, on a road that leads over white blankets of farmland, Andrew Kinsinger, an Old Order Amish man, says from his front porch, "We didn't appreciate it. We told them we regretted that we offended them and left it at that." "I'm just hoping the whole thing will go away without any flak," says James Zimmerman, sitting in his office in the back of the store that has been in his family for 75 years. Some Amish patrons were stunned and embarrassed, complaining that they couldn't do their shopping, saying that Zimmerman's had affronted them. It's the booth where Ford, playing a Philadelphia cop, was filmed for the movie, "Witness," which brought to that street and the rest of Lancaster County its entourage of cameras and crew and inadvertently caused a philosophical head-on collision between the close-knit, close-to-the-land, non-publicity seeking Amish and the Rest of the World. ![]() Zimmerman and Sons there's also the glass telephone booth that actor Harrison Ford used one day last summer. 340 or Old Philadelphia Pike - their drivers displaying an extraordinary etiquette as well as the mutual acceptance of two very different cultures.īut in front of W.L. Both types of vehicles share the two-lane road in between - Rte. Across the road, cars are parked along snow-piled curbs. In front of Zimmerman's, which is as general a store as possible these days, three horses and buggies are tethered to the iron rail hitching post. ![]()
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