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Randy-Michael Testa
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Randy-Michael Testa is a teacher, writer, and editor in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Randy lived with an Amish family and witnessed first hand the trials they faced: the constant streams of gawking tourists, the daily paving over of rich farmland, and the greed and complicity of local officials. Realizing that Amish beliefs prohibited them from open resistance, Testa became a passionate advocate on their behalf. |
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is famous around the world as "Amish Country," home to this persistent religious sect that still farms with horses, dresses plainly, and speaks their own German dialect. Today the Amish are at the center of conflict between land speculation and land stewardship, between material wealth and moral worth.
After the Fire is the moving account of Randy-Michael Testa's experiences--at once a stirring narrative of one man's moral journey and a disturbing chronicle of the Amish struggle to survive against the encroachment of today's world.
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