While rainwater and well water are abundant, they aren’t always pristine. The Amish employ a variety of purification methods ...

Ohio’s Amish Country, located in the northeastern part of the state, draws over 4 million visitors every year – second only to Cedar Point amusement park as the Buckeye State’s most popular tourist ...

Ohio’s Amish Country, located in the northeastern part of the state, draws over 4 million visitors every year – second only to Cedar Point amusement park as the Buckeye State’s most popular tourist ...

The fertile backcountry of rural Tennessee offers a vital lifeline to the Amish, a deeply traditional community living apart ...

The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away from ...

Episode 196: The Amish are often portrayed as paragons of simplicity, faith and hard work — living peacefully in the countryside, growing food without chemicals and raising barns as a community. In an ...

Kevin Williams was 19 when he first experienced the Amish lifestyle. A young journalist on assignment, he was intrigued by the people he met in Michigan in 1991. The Amish, a Christian sect that ...

Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move west, ...

Researchers have seen changes in the Amish community, particularly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They said the Amish are ...

This year, the number of Amish people in the United States passed the 400,000 mark, according to the Amish Studies Center at Elizabethtown College. The U.S. Amish population now totals 404,575, with ...

(The Conversation) — Much of the tourism industry that’s sprung up around Amish areas says more about Americans’ own identity than Amish values, a scholar writes. (The Conversation) — Ohio’s Amish ...