VIDEO | Amish: A Secret Life | Visit PA Dutch Country

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 their lives to the cameras in a society where the church forbids photography.

‘When the English Fall’ imagines Lancaster County Amish as survivors of dystopian disaster

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 ...

A bilingual picture book to help learn Pennsylvania Dutch at the Lancaster County Mennonite Historical Society

→ 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 ...

VIDEO | Amish barn raising in Intercourse, PA

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

New York Abduction Case Tests Limits of Amish Ties to Modern World

→ 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 ...

Photo of the day for December 16, 2014 – Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, PA

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 ...

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

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

How many Amish live in Pennsylvania?

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 ...

Haldeman: My love affair with the Amish

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

Genetic disease takes toll on Lancaster County’s Amish

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 ...

VIDEO | Amish Reality by Megan Yoder

via Lancastrians Against Amish Exploitation

A Look Back in History: In defense of humility and ‘Demut’ Plain Dutch living Part I & II

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 ...

PA Amish men move entire building by hand [VIDEO]

→ 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. ...

Verne Troyer’s Amish Roots

→ 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 ...

Inside a modern Amish wedding

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 ...

Local Links | May 14, 2015

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 ...

Review: V.I.P. Tour by The Amish Experience

→ 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 ...