Currently, more than 50,000 Lancaster County Amish can trace their lineage to just 80 ancestors, less than a tenth of what that number would be outside of the religious community ...

I wonder what percentage of the 5000 annual visitors to Pinecraft are Amish-Mennonites as opposed to Mennonites? → Pinecraft Amish community in Sarasota attracts snow birds - Orlando Sentinel.

The realities of running a business responsible for softening stance to many technologies. Most Amish teens now have cell phones. Source: Cell phones, computers more and more part of Lancaster County ...

While eateries like the ones mentioned in the article have become incredibly popular it should be noted that truly authentic Pennsylvania Dutch cooking bears little resemblance to what you'll find at places ...

Lecture -"Amish in Focus: Photos and Stories" Professional photographer Dennis Hughes of East Petersburg, Pa., has been taking pictures of the Amish and other Plain groups since 1986. His 18,000 wide-ranging ...

→ Bank of Bird-in-Hand is  Bucking the trend - FT.com

→ Capsule reviews of three recent mystery titles - Books - The Boston Globe Is the author referencing the The Hochstetler Massacre with the opening chapters of this book? Certainly seems so ...

Living among both the Amish people of Lancaster County and newer (1949) Colony of Old Order Mennonite Plain People at Kutztown, Berks County, many have admired their “humility” and willingness ...

An intimate portrait of Amish family life and faith, following Old Order Amish couple Miriam and David and their family, and capturing the reason why this family decided to open ...

→ How a series of attacks by a breakaway Amish sect became a landmark hate-crimes case - Legal Talk Network This is a podcast interview featuring Donald Kraybill discussing the Bergholz Amish ...

→ Amish Mafia through the years: Here’s why it’s fake and always has been fake - LancasterOnline            

→ Need a new buggy? Check out Schrock's  - Times Reporter This article describes an Ohio based manufacturer of buggies.

Set in Pennsylvania Dutch country near Lancaster, things in Williams’ novel get dark in a hurry. Following the solar storm, computer records fail; credit and debit cards as well as bank ...

→ Culture clash: Modern conservationist meets Amish farmer - News - poconorecord.com - Stroudsburg, PA Considering that 70% of the land under agriculture in the Octoraro Creek watershed is Amish owned, ...

→ Series looks at 'Anabaptist Faith' - LancasterOnline Details of Highland's Spring Senior Life Institute, open to the public, follow: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 3: "Introduction to Anabaptism," with Bach ...

Although it is possible that some Amish individuals emigrated to Pennsylvania between the the years of 1710 and 1736 - either among the Swiss Mennonites that settled the Pequea Colony ...

→ Amish men lift and carry a house across a field and onto its new plot | Mail Online This video was filmed in Spartansburg, PA, near lake Erie in Crawford County. ...

→ A touch of Lancaster in Doylestown Township - Bucks County Courier Time More info on Sandy Ridge Farm's Amish Market.

→ Talking Christmas traditions with Don Yoder - Philly.com

→ Smart Talk: Amish being exploited on TV? | witf.org

Adams County American Civil War Museum Utilizing artifacts, historical documents, interactive displays, and 3-D productions, visitors will gain a better understanding of the events that took place in the town before, during ...

→ Stunning quilts at MFA wow with colors and complex designs - Braintree Forum.

→ Horse-drawn buggies, bonnets and beards: Glimpse inside another America with an intimate view of Amish life | Mail Online. Shooting primarily with telephoto lenses, photographer Robert Weingarten (Vineyard) spent four years ...

Fans of the Amish "bodice ripper" novels should like 'Love Finds You in Charm' starring Danielle Churchran as Emma Miller a beautiful, young Amish woman, who seemingly has it all. Looking ...

→ A Local Bank in Amish Country Flourishes Amid Dearth of Small Lenders - WSJ One of the first articles that I linked to after starting this website was about the ...

→ Abduction Case Tests Limits of Amish Ties to Modern World - NYTimes.com Known as Swatzenbtruber, the Amish settlements of the region where Fannie and Delila Miller were kidnapped trace their roots to ...

This is a shot of the buggy used by AAA Buggy Tours. They are located at Kitchen Kettle Village in Intercourse, PA. I have not taken a tour with AAA ...

→ Adults need gap years too – break out and take a rumspringa | Sophie Heawood | Comment is free | The Guardian. It is interesting to note that in "English" popular ...

→ Verne Troyer: My parents didn’t know I’d married a Playboy model | Metro News He's know primarily for his role as 'Mini Me' in Mike Myers' Austin Powers movies but this ...

The current issue of Commonweal Magazine features an article by Donald Kraybill title 'Opting Out: How the Amish Haved Survived in America'. Once you start learning more about the Amish ...

→The Amish: Shunned trailer: the price of cultural protection | FlickFilosopher.com.

→ Entrepreneurial spirit drives growth of tiny Emma's Gourmet Popcorn - LancasterOnline Place your orders at emmaspopcorn.com.

→ 3 Things the Amish Have to Say About Good Business - allbusiness.com The ideal for the Amish is a life based around farming. But in some areas - like the one ...

Amish scholar Don Kraybill calls it a riddle, or a paradox. How can the Amish be such successful entrepreneurs today, when they end their formal education at eighth grade and forswear ...

→ Watch This Time-Lapse of the Amish Raising a Large Barn in Just 10 Hours

Having lived my entire life on a farm in rural Woolwich Township, I have become familiar with the clip-clop of horse-drawn buggies, and the guttural sounds of Pennsylvania German that ...

You can watch the full program on PBS.org.

→ Haldeman: My love affair with the Amish » Opinion » The Huntsville Item, Huntsville, TX.

→ Rich Amish Lured Into Florida Land Investment Scheme - Businessweek

→ Horse and buggy and car crash in Upper Leacock Township - LancasterOnline 49 year old woman and 6 year old boy ejected from buggy, sustaining minor injuries. If your interested in ...

→ Lancaster Chamber Of Commerce Exploiting Culture More Then Violent reality Shot? New Report Claims Opponents Of Series Aren’t Innocent - ENSTARZ Reality shot??? More then??? Sloppy industry shills hide behind Eshelman's ...

→ Buggy around Lancaster County - Philly.com A few ideas for a fun family trip to Lancaster County.

→ Money Secrets of Amish People - Business Insider

→ The Amish Are Looking for a New Home | OZY. It's true that some of the Lancaster County Amish are leaving. The average family has around seven children and the ideal ...

UPDATE: It appears that the movie was completed and the name was changed to 'The Harvesting'. I could not find any information about the film actually being released. Perhaps it's ...

All photos © visitpadutchcountry.com

All photos © visitpadutchcountry.com

→ LancasterOnline: Plain Peril: Horse And Buggy Crashes In Lancaster County

→ Donald Kraybill, frequent voice of Amish, to retire - LancasterOnline

Black healing salve is a natural remedy, used since the oldest of times, by people belonging to the Amish community. Today, this ointment has become quite popular, being used not ...

→ 'Bonnet Strings' tells of ties that once bound an Amish woman to her culture - LancasterOnline Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds

→ Amish reality? Don't participate in local attempts to exploit Amish culture, say reps from the local Chamber and Visitors Bureau - LancasterOnline Please support Mary Haverstick in her effort to ...

→ Financial secrets of the Amish - MarketWatch

via Lancastrians Against Amish Exploitation

Factory 449’s ‘The Amish Project’: A one-woman show about a community tragedy - The Washington Post. The play was written by Jessica Dickey who describes it as a “fictional exploration” based on fact. ...

→ "The Amish" on American Experience airs Tuesday, January 28th at 7 pm | KENW.

→ After fire, Amish raise a barn at West Newport Road farm - LancasterOnline

→ Organic dairy in Paradise is a breed apart - LancasterOnline The 40 strong purebred Dutch Belted herd that produces the milk for Amish-owned Dutch Meadows Organic Dairy thrive on the 100% grass-based ...

→ A bilingual picture book: English and Pennsylvania Dutch - LancasterOnline If you are interested in learning some Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch, then you will want to check out the upcoming classes being offered ...

→ Getting to know Lancaster's Amish: Not far by car - PennLive.com The V.I.P. tours run by The Amish Experience will give you a snapshot of life as lived by the Lancaster ...

I took this photo in Lancaster County and didn't realize it was a schoolhouse until weeks later when I was editing images from that day. I remember thinking how odd ...

→ The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch Webcast | Library of Congress The Pennsylvania Dutch culture, which is now over three centuries old and still evolving, is an American hybrid ...

→ Who's exploiting the Amish: Lancaster businesses or a TV show?: Nancy Eshelman | PennLive.com Oh my, Nancy throws down the gauntlet! Too bad her thinking is sloppy. She equates local businesses ...

The History of the Printings of the Martyr's Mirror - Book Review The Martyr's Mirror is a book you would find in most Amish and Mennonite households because it tells the ...

Amish conversion is extremely uncommon, which makes sense: who actually wants to give up modern convenience for more than a week or so? For those who have made the leap, ...

Foodstruck York to feature 50 food trucks, music, beer in September - FlipSidePA.com More than 50 food trucks and carts, local merchants, live music and beer are coming to Penn Park ...

→ In plain sight - Life in Pennsylvania Amish country isn’t quite as depicted by Hollywood | UTSanDiego.com

Traveling through some parts of Lancaster County you might be taken to think that the Amish make up a majority of the local population. Everywhere you turn you'll see acre upon ...

→ Aerial Tours of the Susquehanna River and Amish Country | NBC4 Washington. What an incredible way to explore PA Dutch Country! Smoketown Airport in Lancaster County offers four different aerial tours, ranging ...

→ Religious groups call for an end to 'Amish Mafia' | PennLive.com

The notion that Pennsylvania Dutch could go fallow is absurd to the Amish, who have been doubling their population every few decades. “It’s actually considered the fastest-growing small-minority language in the ...

The article mentions that some couples invite English friends to their weddings. That would certainly make for an interesting experience. But I'm sure a little drone wedding videography would be ...

→ Buggy license fees shoot up | The Journal Gazette This article deals with Amish living in Allen County Indiana. However, the issue in question is one that effects the Amish of ...