Plain People

About the Book

“Plain, Plain” and nine other award-winning short stories reveal a unique peek of Amish underworld “plain living” as never before. Talton Weber lived among 4,300 Amish of northeast Ohio for twenty-five years and was privy to their unique religious ways, and these revealing short stories use fiction to document their trials of coping with such a rigid lifestyle within the settlements. The characters of Plain People are modern-day grotesques: rebellious Amish boys and girls whose forbidden activities fly in the face of stifling religious doctrines, overpowering and demanding district bishops who threaten to shun members at the slightest deviation, fractured marriages where divorce is the ultimate sin, isolated suffering individuals who try to inject modern methods into Old Order ways, and those who fall in love with the Amish and “yank over”—never to return to their former modern lives.

About the Author

Talton Weber was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1955. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1979 with a degree in English/Journalism Education. Weber taught and coached at Cody High School, Casper Natrona County High School and Dublin Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio and then worked at Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas, Texas. For three years he was a factory firearms rep/professional shooter for Beretta USA. For the last 18 years he was been the owner of Gunrunner Auctions of Cody, Wyoming and Burton, Ohio. Weber enjoys hunting, fishing, trapping, hiking and serves on the Cody School Board. Weber lives on a ranch outside Yellowstone National Park on the North Fork in Wapiti, Wyoming.