Born Amish

Born Amish is a true story about Dr. Ann Stoltzfus Taylors memories of life as a little Amish girl whose world shifted one fateful day in the spring of 1954. When the author was fourteen years old the bishop--known to her as Uncle Dan--abruptly ex-communicated her father grandfather and others during a heated discussion over a friends growing manufacturing business. Now in this heart-warming memoir Ann paints a picture of growing up in an Amish farm family whose influences werent truly understood until now. The power and benefits of those cultural values--and the pain of ex-communication that sparked her interest in psychology and therapy--would spur her on to earn three degrees including a doctorate from Temple University. This Amish Way influenced how she lived as a wife and career woman in a world very different from her upbringing in the Old-Order Amish Society of Lancaster County Pennsylvania.