{"id":17294,"date":"2026-06-23T19:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17294"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:02:23","slug":"amish-upbringing-fuels-desire-to-enhance-sense-of-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17294","title":{"rendered":"Amish upbringing fuels desire to enhance sense of community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p>Laguna Woods resident John Peters grew up in Intercourse, Pennsylvania, an Amish village in southeastern Lancaster County. He wasn\u2019t Amish, but rather \u201cEnglish,\u201d as the non-Amish residents were called.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17287\">10,000 pounds of illegal fireworks seized in Pasadena connected to Nevada street gang, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he came to embrace the Amish people, their culture and their values.<\/p>\n<p>The Amish are an \u201cOld World order,\u201d Peters says. They\u2019re a traditional group known for simple living, plain attire and limited use of modern conveniences such as cars, electricity and technology. An agricultural society, the Amish focus on family, hard work and traditions.<\/p>\n<p>What Peters liked most about the Amish was their sense of community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople took care of each other,\u201d he said. \u201cThey looked after each other, the kids and the businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters tells the story of the Amish in Intercourse in a film he created over eight months in 2004 for the village\u2019s 250th birthday. The historical documentary is a \u201cremembrance of when life was simpler and slower,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He will screen the film in a Laguna Woods Video Club event dubbed \u201cRemember When?\u201d on Wednesday, June 24, in Clubhouse 6.<\/p>\n<div><ul><div><div><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Amish man rides a horse-drawn lawn mower in the...\" class=\"wp-image-17289\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0befa71b80243ccd0cf93d2b76e86834-1024x650.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0befa71b80243ccd0cf93d2b76e86834-1024x650.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0befa71b80243ccd0cf93d2b76e86834-300x190.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0befa71b80243ccd0cf93d2b76e86834-768x487.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0befa71b80243ccd0cf93d2b76e86834-1536x974.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0befa71b80243ccd0cf93d2b76e86834.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>An Amish man rides a horse-drawn lawn mower in the village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Laguna Woods resident John Peters grew up in the village.\n(Courtesy of John Peters)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laguna Woods resident John Peters is seen at age 5...\" class=\"wp-image-17290\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c1d780c6fc3e66e048081c40ef4e30bb-1024x670.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c1d780c6fc3e66e048081c40ef4e30bb-1024x670.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c1d780c6fc3e66e048081c40ef4e30bb-300x196.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c1d780c6fc3e66e048081c40ef4e30bb-768x502.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c1d780c6fc3e66e048081c40ef4e30bb.webp 1453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Laguna Woods resident John Peters is seen at age 5 with his adoptive father next to a hutch the older man built in the Amish village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania.\n(Courtesy of John Peters)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laguna Woods resident John Peters lived in the Amish village...\" class=\"wp-image-17291\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/97c1a7e4bc5f8f1294f60e9cc2a5396d-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/97c1a7e4bc5f8f1294f60e9cc2a5396d-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/97c1a7e4bc5f8f1294f60e9cc2a5396d-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/97c1a7e4bc5f8f1294f60e9cc2a5396d-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/97c1a7e4bc5f8f1294f60e9cc2a5396d.webp 1425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Laguna Woods resident John Peters lived in the Amish village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, from birth through high school. He will screen a documentary on the village and its residents on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Clubhouse 6.\n(Courtesy of John Peters)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A horse-drawn buggy drives past a grocery store in the...\" class=\"wp-image-17292\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32d59ca8e7b0b8fdd4bd03c67d35031a-1024x642.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32d59ca8e7b0b8fdd4bd03c67d35031a-1024x642.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32d59ca8e7b0b8fdd4bd03c67d35031a-300x188.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32d59ca8e7b0b8fdd4bd03c67d35031a-768x482.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32d59ca8e7b0b8fdd4bd03c67d35031a-1536x963.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32d59ca8e7b0b8fdd4bd03c67d35031a.webp 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>A horse-drawn buggy drives past a grocery store in the Amish village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Laguna Woods resident John Peters lived in the village through high school.\n(Courtesy of John Peters)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amish horse-drawn buggies trot along the roads of Intercourse, Pennsylvania....\" class=\"wp-image-17293\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/99ba614ffbf3c0dbab27e61c6db66952-1024x728.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/99ba614ffbf3c0dbab27e61c6db66952-1024x728.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/99ba614ffbf3c0dbab27e61c6db66952-300x213.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/99ba614ffbf3c0dbab27e61c6db66952-768x546.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/99ba614ffbf3c0dbab27e61c6db66952-1536x1092.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/99ba614ffbf3c0dbab27e61c6db66952.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Amish horse-drawn buggies trot along the roads of Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Laguna Woods Video Club member John G. Peters Jr. was raised in Intercourse and will share a video of life in the village on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.\n(AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/div><\/div><\/ul><div><div>An Amish man rides a horse-drawn lawn mower in the village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Laguna Woods resident John Peters grew up in the village.\n(Courtesy of John Peters)\n<\/div><span>Expand<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p>After the screening, audience members will be invited to reflect on their own childhood, what it was like growing up and how the world has changed since then.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI would like for the audience to reminisce about an earlier time, when things were slower,\u201d Peters said. \u201cI also want people to reflect on the fact that we are a village and we need to enhance the sense of community in this village.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also would like viewers to come away with a new understanding and appreciation of the Amish and their lifestyle, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are real people; they\u2019re not actors,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is still the way they live. Their lifestyle is still around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters came to live in Intercourse in the 1950s and \u201860s when he was adopted at birth by a great uncle in the village after his impoverished mother couldn\u2019t take care of him. His father died six months before he was born.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Through high school, Peters lived among Amish families in the neighborhood, he became friends with Amish children and attended one-room schoolhouses with them, he rode in horse-drawn buggies, and he worked the farmland during vacations. He even helped his adoptive father, a cabinetmaker, build the furniture that the Amish had in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The village had a population of 800 and included Amish, \u201cEnglish\u201d and Mennonite residents. Mennonites are close in their origins to the Amish but have largely adapted to the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>The Mennonites and the English had electricity in their homes, but the Amish did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey used coal oil lanterns,\u201d Peters said. \u201cThey went to bed when the sun went down and got up when the sun came up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farm vehicles were either horse driven or they ran on gas engines. Household appliances such as refrigerators and washers ran on attached lawn mower engines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Amish believed that electrical wires would bring in outside influences, especially TV and radio,\u201d Peters said. His own family had an old black-and-white TV with three stations, and they listened to the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Peters describes his life as a youngster in the village as boring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere weren\u2019t a lot of children to play with, and not a lot of amusement \u2013 no bowling alley, no movie theater,\u201d he said. \u201cIt stayed pretty traditional in the Amish and Mennonite ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He vividly recalls attending school in one-room buildings: \u201cThe teacher would first talk to the first graders for an hour, then she would step to the right about 15 feet and talk to the second graders, all in the same room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through eighth grade, Peters attended school with the Amish children. But only the English students went on to junior high and high school.<\/p>\n<p>For the Amish, education ended with eighth grade and basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills, he said. Then they would go to work on the family farm or in the family business.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment in Intercourse was limited. \u201cIt was pretty much what you made it,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<p>Every summer a rodeo and carnival came to town, and in\u00a01954, the village celebrated its 200th anniversary with a chicken barbecue, a parade and bands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a very big deal,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Amish put little wheels on their sleighs so that the horses could pull them down the street in the parade.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17285\">Housing bill passes Senate with lawmakers under pressure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peters wasn\u2019t entirely clueless about the world outside Intercourse. But he didn\u2019t like it much. His family would go clothes shopping in the \u201cbig city\u201d of Lancaster, population 25,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI preferred to be out in the country,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all came back and settled in with the culture as we knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally the outside world baffled him and his Amish friends. He remembers the hullabaloo when the Beatles came to America in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t understand what the big deal was about their haircuts because all the Amish boys had haircuts just like them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Amish are a patriarchal society, with traditional roles for husbands and wives \u2013 men provide for the family, and women keep house. Peters says he was raised that way and believed it was the right way until he left Intercourse after high school and found out it didn\u2019t have to be that way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a while to unlearn some of the male-dominant \u2018rules,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBut I pretty much changed. I\u2019m not a patriarchal person. I\u2019m a collaborator. I like to treat everybody equally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He treasures some of the Amish values, such as a good sense of morality that was instilled in him and the value of hard work. \u201cThat was just expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also grew up \u201ccolorblind,\u201d he said. \u201cI never heard anybody say a bad word about anybody. That\u2019s how the Amish were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Amish belief he came to disagree with was on education.<\/p>\n<p>At first, he said, \u201cI had this very poor image of education, having grown up in a community that didn\u2019t value it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, in 10th grade, \u201cI was told, \u2018You\u2019ll never have a problem graduating from college because you\u2019re too stupid to get in,\u2019 and I believed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he left Intercourse to work for the federal government in Washington, Peters began taking courses at a community college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really thought this education thing was pretty neat,\u201d he said. \u201cI found out I liked learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to get an undergraduate degree in criminal justice, a masters in public relations and communication from Boston University, a masters in business administration from Babson College, a PhD in applied management and decisions science from Walden University, and a post-doctorate degree in arts and education from Cal State San Bernardino.<\/p>\n<p>He also graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).<\/p>\n<p>From an early life of little technology, it would seem surprising that Peters would gravitate toward high tech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I saw the value of tech. I saw how tech can make your life much easier,\u201d he said. \u201cAI is here, and we\u2019re going to have to live with it. There\u2019s no reason to be afraid of it. Advantages certainly outweigh disadvantages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, about the village\u2019s name, which the community adopted in 1814. At the time, the word had a different meaning than it does today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was no big deal. There are a lot of odd names in that region,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<p>The name also was a novelty on college admissions forms and job applications because everybody seemed to remember it, he said.<\/p>\n<p>And several checks he mailed were never cashed. After all, they were from the \u201cFirst National Bank of Intercourse, signed John Peters,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only thing I can think of is people kept the check as a souvenir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters believes the name was derived from social and\/or business intercourse.<\/p>\n<p>The screening of Peters\u2019 film is a fundraiser for the Video Club to help replace equipment damaged when the lab was struck by a vehicle. A donation of $20 per family is encouraged, but any amount will help.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 12 p.m., and the film starts at 12:30. Free wine and snacks will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe watching this video, people will become a little nostalgic,\u201d Peters said. \u201cWe can still bridge community gaps, bridge cultural gaps, and make it a more vibrant community.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17284\">US slaps new sanctions on Cuban companies key to island\u2019s crumbling economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For information, visit videocluboflagunawoods.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laguna Woods resident\u2019s film tells the story of the group in Intercourse, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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