Title: Old Lady Reveals The SIN She Witnessed In The 1890s In Rural Maine Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CVcZ_8HPuY Published:Dec 3, 2019 Author:David Hoffman Post Date:2022-04-13 16:57:03 by BTP Holdings Keywords:None Views:199 Comments:2
I have posted clips from this documentary before but have been asked so many questions about it so I decided to tell the background story. Here I post the full interview. It is a strange and sad story and my documentary details the efforts my team and I made to decide if it was true. And indeed, we found evidence sufficient to conclude that it was. Rural Maine in the 1800s was a rough place to be sure. Cold weather. Puritan people. Shunning an active part of community life. To me, local journalist Nettie Mitchell was a hero and I deeply appreciated her sharing her story with me. She had held it inside for so long. And her presentation is in my view, beyond spectacular. Basically, it is the story of how “sin” was perceived in that society at that time.
Poster Comment:
The Amish shun people also. Some try to break away from that lifestyle. Much about the Amish is determined by their churches.
When I drove the straight truck back in late 90s, I was in SE Pennsylvania at a fuel stop. There was a roadside cafe about a quarter mile west of there. So, I walked up the road for a hot meal.
As I was walking back to the fuel stop, I passed a young Amish man with a beard. He was carrying a small child in his arms. Not too sure how close I was to Lancaster, but it couldn't have been far. IIRC, I had a delivery in Philadelphia which was right along U.S. 30. ;)