Jan Edwards has many fond memories from the more than a decade that her family spent living among the Amish in Guernsey County. She talks of weaving hats with friends and entering neighbors’ houses without…
Middlebourne, Ohio – Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers with the Cambridge post made an odd discovery Thursday night while investigating a report of a wrong-way driver on Interstate 70 in eastern Guernsey County. Troopers discovered…
Collegeville, Pennsylvania – Anne Beiler, the founder of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, says she’s still a little Amish girl at heart. While speaking at Ursinus College’s Lenfest Theater Wednesday night, Beiler attributed her success in business…
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — An Amish man who led state police on a chase that hit speeds of up to 120 mph through northern Dauphin County was sentenced to 2 years of probation after pleading guilty…
Medina, Ohio – An attorney representing a Homer Township Amish family said there are constitutional protections that should prevent the state from appointing a guardian to oversee 11-year-old Sarah Hershberger’s medical care. Maurice Thompson, an…
Rochester, New York – A poignant and penetrating look at what it means to be cut off from faith and family, The Amish: Shunned follows seven people who have chosen to leave their closed and…
My name is Lisa Yoder and I’m married with three children. I was the recipient of a scholarship from the Amish Descendant Scholarship Fund in 2013. I’m currently in my junior year of college, working…
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania – Nearly three dozen residents from the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Penn., were in Newtown last Friday. The group spent about nine hours in town, offering support from an unfortunate point…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – The first time Beth Graybill saw Lizzie Zook, Zook was riding down a country road on a motorized scooter with a tall, orange safety flag. Zook was 70 at the time and…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – It was a different technological world when Lancaster County-based Esh Computer Center started 25 years ago. It’s still a different world, culturally speaking, for the company’s considerable roster of Amish clients. But…
