And, as we know, making the most money is the real game. Almost shockingly in this era of computerized everything, these people have chosen the goal of eschewing modern technology with a vengeance. Advertisements rarely appear, if at all. I saw one once for horse-drawn plowing. The latest issue was hand-set using metal type.
Illustrations are hand-cut wood engravings.
Essays mostly address the ways authors are living their lives instead of just being critical of the way others live theirs. Each issue has pages for children, pages about domestic living, pages devoted to the religious life of the Amish. Every issue focuses on a topic, and the current issue's theme deals with time and how it disappears. Among the 15 issues to date have been topics devoted to kids without computers, localization of food production, exiting the information superhighway, abandoning money, reclaiming the ritual of death from specialists, agriculture and community, and health technology. Each issue has religious articles based on Amish perspective.