So far this year, LNP-LancasterOnline and other media have reported three fatal farm accidents. All of the victims were children or teenagers, and all were buried in Amish cemeteries: Do reports like ...
Some Amish communities are adopting electric bicycles (e-bikes) for quick and efficient travel. Multiple electric transportation publications have reported that members of select Amish groups are ...
The Amish are a curiosity in the modern world. Whereas most people use if not rely on technology for their daily lives, the Amish keep their use of technology to a minimum and do just fine without it.
Many outsiders assume the Amish reject all new technology. But that's not true. One Amish man in Lancaster County, Pa., checks his voicemail about four times a day. His shop is equipped with a propane ...
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -- -- LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -- On the porch of a white farmhouse set between corn and soybean fields, an Amish woman makes applesauce the old-fashioned way: She crushes the fruit ...
BLANCHARD, Mich. -- It's not like Glen Mast to be confrontational or to draw attention to himself. He is Old Order Amish and is happy to tend his 35-acre farm, build furniture for his children and ...
A former member of the community revealed that the phone emergency alert on Oct. 4 got his friends in trouble. Getty Images The modern world is invading the Amish countryside. A former member of the ...
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