In the mid-1700s, Amish families fleeing persecution in Europe settled in what is now Berks and Lancaster counties. The Amish in Berks County were known as the Northkill settlement, named after the ...

Feb. 14—This is the 22nd article written to commemorate the Rush County Bicentennial. Forty-eight years ago I wrote a graduate paper about Amish education. The paper was titled The Educational ...

Geauga senior citizens are invited Feb. 26 to hear a presentation on the history of the Amish, presented by John Gingerich of the Geauga Amish Historical Library. The program will take place at 10:30 ...

Amish's new audiobook 'The Chola Tigers' brings his mythic reimagining of Indian history to life with vivid detail ...

n "The Amish" by Donald B. Kraybill. Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt spent twenty-five years researching Amish history, religion, and culture. Drawing on archival ...

Brad Igou grew up in Lancaster County, but he never got to know his neighbors - namely, the Amish. "I went to college in New York, and it wasn't until I graduated and came back to Lancaster that I ...

A professional barn restoration crew from Galesburg and a multitude of volunteers preserve history by raising the Herschberger-Miller barn, circa 1879. The barn was donated and relocated from a local ...

Researchers have seen changes in the Amish community, particularly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They said the Amish are diversifying their occupations, moving west to find more farmland and ...

The Amish community is known for its quiet, simpler way of life characterized by horse-drawn buggies and modest clothing. Now, some Amish across northern Ohio find themselves clashing with a new state ...

Recently I purchased a couple of Amish cookbooks, volumes one and two of "Amish Friends Cookbook" by Wanda E. Brunstetter. I have enjoyed them a lot, and I especially like the Amish history at the ...

On a recent weekday afternoon, an Amish man in a horse-drawn buggy navigated through a busy intersection of auto traffic in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, past a billboard proclaiming: “Pray for God ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — On a recent weekday afternoon, an Amish man in a horse-drawn buggy navigated through a busy intersection of auto traffic in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, past a billboard ...