Brownsville, Kentucky

Plain community

There is a Plain, horse and buggy community with about 40 to 50 people in Peace Valley, Brownsville. It is closely affiliated with Caneyville.

   They live off of the electronic grid with one exception, one cord that runs to a phone booth, which has two home phones in it and is centered in the community, specifically not right beside any house. The basic idea is that they do not want to incorporate the phone into their every day life to a point where it is a very major part of it. If the phone is not easily accessible then it is only used when necessary, which they consider is business. Besides business and necessary family or friend contacts every once in a while it is limited to just business. One must remember that the idea with the community is that the family is there so there's no need to call other places. They would rather focus on their every day relationships in the community and with the nearby neighbors that the community affects.
Electronic Standard: Just because they live off of the grid doesn't mean that they don't have some amount of electricity though. The few exceptions to the general of independence of technology would be welders,headlights, and one way that Brownsville differs from Caneyville is that they will not use big LED lights like Caneyville uses, such as Dewalt lights, electric fencing, charging an electronic scale the phone and a very simple cash register,bike lights, which will be expounded upon later, and water pumps, for they pump their own water, with the exception of when they have to use city water for things such as certified cooking kitchens.
  Just because of their reservation with electricity doesn't mean that they don' have some source of energy for things such as steel fabrication, casting iron, wood working, etc., they use older methods of capturing energy. Their most commonly used method is Steam engine, which was put into use through the 17 hundreds, 18 hundreds, and early 19 hundreds. That is limited mostly to their shops though, and farming being their largest occupation they use horses, not just to pull the plows, hay tetters, cultivaters and general farm equipment but also their buggies and they will harness them and put them on treadmills or in circle mills. 
  Inner community order is managed by a spiritual leader they term as Bishop who has underneath him, ministers,which help minister the word and minister as they see fit for God, and a deacon, whos purpose is controversial but at least is to help the sick and take care of alot of the small details of community life. 
  Dress: the women wear a simple dress consisting of the main part, an apron that adds as another layer to take away from the definition of bodily shape, and a head covering that reveals only a little hair at the front. The women will sew their own clothes and most of the families clothes. That varies from house to house, some women sewing all of the clothes, save underwear and socks, some buying from those who sew plain people clothes commercially. 
  The men dress in button down shirts that are long sleeved and collarless, broadfalls, which are like jeans except they can be made out of any fabric and at the front instead of having a zipper has buttons going from side to side, that hold up a flap. The finishing touch is the suspenders, which quite literally are supposed to suspend their pants.
  Dogma towards the world: They feel bad for the people living in american society because they feel like they are living a sinful life that will lead to judgement from the key figure in their lifestyle, God. They feel alot of love however for them and hope that by being a good witness of God's grace can lead some to the light.
  Transport: As was stated earlier, they use horses primarily, and as should be said they own no vehicles. They will,however, hire a driver,as the call their transporters, to take them where their buggies cannot, and bikes. They use bikes for transportation around their community and will go on long several hundred mile trips on them.