Oklahoma! It just rolls off your tongue, doesn’t it? It’s probably my favorite state name, outside of Mississippi, of course. Oklahoma is hardly full of Amish. But, it does have a couple of settlements, including the 100-year-old community at Chouteau. Oklahoma’s two Amish communities are unlike most others, for one key reason. You can read [...]
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The Great Plains have long attracted Amish settlement. However, Amish populations in most Great Plains states, such as Oklahoma and Montana, remain low. Kansas holds to this pattern; despite a history of Amish settlement stretching back 140 years, the Sunflower State is today home to only about a dozen church districts. There are some interesting [...]
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Ice storms thrashed the country last week. Oklahoma was especially hard-hit. An article (no longer online) in the Tulsa World explains how the area’s Amish and non-Amish have handled it. A local English man, suffering through an extended power outage, told an Amish compatriot that ‘we’re living like you are now.’ The Amish haven’t felt [...]
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