Sixteen defendants in the Amish beard-cutting incidents were arraigned in federal court in Cleveland yesterday. The indictments include charges of kidnapping, conspiracy, and assault. All pleaded not guilty. One account is here. Reading through the various media stories a few things jumped out: Six women are among the defendants. The seven men who are being [...]
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Last October we had a look at some unusual occupations in Michigan Amish communities. I was recently going through an Ohio Amish directory while doing book research and came across more uncommon Amish jobs. Amish church directories vary. Some have the head of household’s occupation listed; others don’t. Sometimes the listing is just a generic description [...]
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Amish are known to be avid birders. As an outdoors activity you can do with family, I suppose that shouldn’t come as a surprise. This might be the wrong analogy, but I’ve always imagined it as hunting without the guns. I don’t have any statistics but it seems like it is particularly popular among Amish [...]
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The area of Hicksville, Ohio (Defiance County, is home to an Amish community of just one congregation in size. What makes it interesting is that it is also quite old, being founded in 1914 (making it the 3rd or 4th-oldest Ohio Amish community). Amish settlements come and go. There are over 400 Amish communities [...]
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I have a favorite pair of shoes. They’re cold-weather hikers, originally waterproof but after a few years of use, not so much anymore. That’s not the problem, though, as apparently a tiny hole has appeared, somewhere, in the sole (where exactly, I haven’t been able to determine). However it lets enough water in that walking [...]
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We’ve been following a number of high-profile stories involving Amish the past few weeks and months. There have recently been some updates I wanted to pass along to you: Ohio Amish shooting As of last week, officials were waiting for results of ballistics testing in the Ohio Amish shooting case. However they are confident the [...]
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Michigan Mary, who commented earlier on the Ohio Amish shooting, has shared some photos taken in Holmes County last week. In my neck of the woods we just hit winter–both technically and meteorologically speaking, with the season’s first snowfall yesterday. Looks like they’ve had a bit of the same lately in Ohio. Exotic animal [...]
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Rachel Yoder was killed by a stray bullet from a hunter’s rifle, according to new reports. A hunter was getting ready to clean his weapon about a mile and a half away, and discharged the firearm into the air. In the most recent news piece I can find, Holmes County Sherriff Timothy Zimmerly describes it [...]
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