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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The video shows young women in traditional dress reacting with surprise as the filmer approaches, sparking debate over privacy, rumspringa, and the nuances of Anabaptist technology rules. A video ...

On a chilly morning this past January, the writer Lucinda J. Kinsinger strapped her baby daughter into her car seat and drove two-plus hours from her home in rural Oakland, Maryland, to Waynesboro, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Troyer was teaching in his Amish settlement's school in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1977 when his pupils began relaying orders ...