In the small town of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, the English and the Amish work to coexist and deal with the tourism that | dG1fWU5jUll4UER5VE0
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00:00 The hardest thing for visitors to understand is how a town with so many plain people in it,
00:09 such a religious area, can have a name such as intercourse.
00:15 We're up the road from Blue Ball and down the road from Paradise, and that's a joke in itself.
00:21 We can get to Philadelphia in an hour, New York City, three hours, Washington, two and a half.
00:27 Yet we're kind of like this little bubble of peacefulness right in the middle of the rest of the world.
00:35 I think the name is 100% why the tourism comes here that much.
00:42 It certainly brings the people in, the curious ones.
00:48 But it is an interesting name, sells a lot of t-shirts.
00:51 Sometimes outside visitors think they're going to find the Amish all in a little corral.
00:57 And I'll say, "Well, where are all the Amish?"
00:59 They'll say, "Well, they're on the farms."
01:01 Without the Amish community, there wouldn't be tourism here.
01:04 I said, "Just try to go somewhere in a hurry, and a buggy will appear in front of you. Trust me."
01:09 That's what pretty much prompted the tourism to start with, people coming to see the Amish communities.
01:15 Fifty years ago, they would really have nothing to do with tourists.
01:19 If a camera was aimed in their direction, they would have turned around or put up their hand.
01:24 That does not happen now.
01:26 If the tourists are bringing money, the Amish will take the money just like anybody else will.
01:30 People just have to say they've been to intercourse.
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