Author Saloma Miller Furlong to share Amish experience

Meet author Saloma Miller Furlong, who has documented her break with her Amish community in two memoirs, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at the Asheboro Public Library

              

Miller’s appearance, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free and the public is invited.

Miller is author of Why I Left the Amish and a sequel, Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds, which was published this month. She also was featured in the American Experience documentary “The Amish,” which aired on PBS in 2012.

Her first book covers her coming of age in an Ohio Amish community, and her departure from it in a quest for freedom and more formal education. Her new book explores her experiences outside the Amish world — and her temporary return when a delegation from the community appeared to take her back.

Furlong graduated from Smith College in 2007. She and her husband David, a toymaker, live in Massachusetts and appear in a new American Experience documentary, “The Amish: Shunned,” airing this month.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.