Auburn, Kentucky – In this rural outpost near the border with Tennessee, Amish women park their horse-drawn buggies at the edge of town and walk in dragging wooden wagons behind them, returning with good stacked…
Clark, Missouri – Maryann Yoder, 5, will join her sister Edna, 7, and other Amish children in a local one-room schoolhouse in a few years. But until then, speech therapist Anna Crusha provides a different…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – It took three days, but Elma Byler, 66, was finally released from the Lancaster County Mental Health Facility after being mistakenly committed a few days earlier. Byler spent the last month telling her friends and family…
Seymour, Missouri – A 30-year-old Amish man died Friday morning after a lightning strike hit his horses as he plowed a garden at his farm on Smith Road, about six miles northeast of Seymour. Samuel H.K.…
I’ve been fascinated by the Amish since my first trip to Holmes County, where my sister and I donned bonnets to play in a buggy, and my brother got a wooden rubber band gun. Every…
Seymour, Missouri – A man has died after being struck by lightning in a southwest Missouri farm field. KYTV reports the 30-year-old Amish man died Friday morning along with two horses he was using to…
Russellville, Kentucky – Jail time was averted, at least for now, by an Amish father and son who refuse to pay fines for violating an Auburn city ordinance requiring owners to prevent waste from horses…
Blanchard, Michigan – Horse drawn buggies clatter across the streets of Blanchard in increasing frequency. Shops are often patronized by customers dressed in homemade garments, reminiscent of the 1800s. As the Amish community continues to…
Jefferson County, Ohio – A child was killed after a pickup truck crashed into her horse and buggy on Tuesday afternoon along County Road 58 in Bergholz. Officials say an 86-year-old who lives nearby was…
Four decades ago, Carl Cisney’s life changed when he gave an Amish neighbor a lift to a welding shop. The neighbor introduced him to an Amish man named Steve Esh. The Amish population is growing…
