CANTON, Ohio — It sounds like the beginning of a comedy routine. An Amish miracle heater? Really?
"It’s a joke because the Amish couldn’t use the heater itself," said Donald Kraybill, an Amish expert at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. "It’s kind of like Quakers selling Quaker guns. It’s sort of an oxymoron." Even so, Canton company Heat Surge has sold thousands of Roll-n-Glow electric fireplaces.