Shoo-Fly Pie

they till the soil with a simple plow pulled by a horse they've weaned no electric nor vast education only hard work religious dedication a simple people of limited skill yet a divine community of love thy neighbor you see them on horse and buggy a painful sight for speedy drivers who live life too fast to notice a smiling beard we buy their products because they produce quality quilts, baked goods, furniture made with hours of personal touch such a wonderful community once distant from the world now tragedy has found them the price paid for trying to belong...... Bob Shank-Oct. 4th, 2006 yesterday a nut went into an amish school and killed 5 little girls, while wounding others. Every year I go to Lancaster, Pa. to get 10 shoo-fly pies from a barn (store) near dutch wonderland. I love the pies, but the people even more so, such a quality of life they lead, and yet they are slowly buying into society's material ways and they don't realize the price is far to heavy to pay. Somethings are better off left alone, like the molasses used in the shoo-fly pie, change it to syrup and the taste is bitter.........