Shadows of a Forgotten World

I'm always fascinated by people who live alternative, historical lives. Here's a video about a man in England who lives as if it were the 1940s. " His clothes, his house, the music he listens to - all come from an era before he was even born. He has always been interested the 1940s, but it is an interest that has grown over the years. He's gone from buying reproduction furniture for his house to tracking down the real thing. His 70-year-old carpet is his latest pride and joy."

As part of the German television series called Vergessene Völker (Forgotten Peoples), a documentary film was made about the Carpathian Hutsuls, "Vergessene Völker: Die Huzulen in der Ukraine." There is also a French version, "A la rencontre des peuples oubliés: Chez les Houtsoules d'Ukraine," and a Ukrainian one, " Забуті народи Європи : Гуцули" (embedded below).  

Today I read an interesting article called "Guests from the Past, or Life of the Ukrainian Amish" I spent my summers camping in a Ukrainian scouts reservation, which was located in an Amish town in Ohio. So we would often see Amish when we were allowed to venture into town on the weekends. I hadn't realized there was a Ukrainian equivalent until today. The Ukrainian Amish, or хустинники (people who wear kerchiefs) or кашкетикники (people who wear caps) as they are also called by non-Amish, live without electricity or gas, don't drive, wash their clothes in the river, only read religious literature, and have lots of children. The article says that one difference between them and American Amish that the Ukrainians use shampoo, detergents, and sometimes chemical fertilizers. I really like the phrase from the title of the article "guests from the past." People who continue to live like our ancestors are living examples of "remnants of the past" - t...