Amish people who decide to leave their community to live in "English," or non-Amish American, culture are typically around 18 years old and have limited resources. In Greenwich, Ohio, the faith-based ...
When Judy Stavisky began trading free car rides to Amish women in exchange for talk time, she wasn’t setting out to write a book or to make lifelong friends. But that’s exactly what happened to the ...
GLADWIN, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) - An Amish woman died after a Jeep crashed into an Amish buggy Friday afternoon, according to police. According to the Gladwin County Sheriff’s Office, the buggy was ...
A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable ...
GLADWIN COUNTY, Mich. (WKRC) — An Amish woman was killed and two others were hospitalized after a Jeep collided with a buggy on a roadway. A tragic crash claimed the life of a 58-year-old Amish woman ...
BUTMAN TOWNSHIP — A 58-year-old Amish woman was killed Friday afternoon when a motor vehicle struck a horse-drawn buggy in Gladwin County, authorities said. According to an Aug. 1 news release, ...
Meet the hottest new women’s fiction subgenre: the Amish romance novel. Seeing as “the church has traditionally viewed fiction as distracting and deceitful,” the Wall Street Journal reports, Amish ...
Unidentified Maker from the Lapp family, Smoketown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, “Lone Star / Star of Bethlehem” (c. 1935–45), cotton and wool, 81 x 82 inches (205.74 x 208.28 cm) (all photos Julie ...
Listen back to the audio of this conversation here (starts at 17:05) & here (starts at 18:10). Karen Johnson-Weiner has devoted more than thirty years to studying the lives of people who are Amish, ...