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New York’s Amish community has become an unlikely minority on the frontlines of a battle pitting Constitutional rights against potentially draconian public health laws. On March 3, the New York ...
Long viewed as tech-averse, the Amish have become enthusiastic users of electric bicycles, so much so that one Ohio community has become a testing ground for new models. For decades, driving the ...
A young woman has told how she has fled the Amish community and had her haircut and wore a pair of jeans for the first time. Alisha Green, 26, was a generational member of the Amish and Mennonite ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daniel Beiler, 33, an emergency medical technician and aid volunteer who grew up in a traditional Amish community in Pennsylvania. The ...
The home is really nice, very appealing for folks who need caregivers, but have no one on the home front to do the honors.
The Amish has a long history that is intertwined with the "English" communities they are near. Trotting down the streets of many Ohio and Pennsylvania towns are horses attached to buggies carrying ...
Ruth Lapp said she always let her babies crawl on the floor when they were young. And when her children complain of a sore throat, she gives them a spoonful of vinegar, a remedy she says could ...
The strong ties among students reflect the closeness of Amish society as a whole. "There are much less expectations of privacy in this community than others," Yoder said. "So that's kind of the ...
The sandy beaches and bustling boardwalks of the Jersey Shore have long been a magnet for teens seeking summer thrills, but ...
Despite hailing from a historically apolitical and publicity-avoidant religious community, the Amish farmer has turned into a kind of folk hero among MAGA Republicans — and a symbol of the ...
By Amy Hensel [email protected] A barn raising was held in Edwards Township on Greenwood Rd. between M-30 and Stillwagon ...