Lately we’ve seen many articles, books, and even TV programs about Amish leaving their communities. Below, a video interview of brothers John and Joe Yoder, who recently left their Texas Amish community. Why so much interest in former Amish? On the one hand, there is something compelling about an individual who bucks the system. Especially [...]
Continue reading Leaving the Amish: A Texas ex-Amish story
Texas is a lot better known for ten-gallon hats than broad-brimmed plain ones. But a single Amish settlement does exist in the Lone Star state, near the town of Beeville in Bee County. The Bee County settlement is the 2nd-most southerly Amish community in North America. Read more in today’s Amish State guide entry on [...]
Continue reading Amish in Texas
It’s become something of a habit to share a few thoughts, comments, and links every couple weeks in what I call a “brain dump”. It’s not as scary as it sounds: Reader Steve recently asked “Where are the Texas Amish?” We don’t have a Texas Amish State Guide entry yet, but I can point you [...]
Continue reading Friday brain dump: Lone Star Amish, getting hitched, and an Illinois buggy “brew-thru”
Texas seems an odd spot to find Amish. Besides the current community in Bee County, there have been at least four other attempts to settle the Lone Star State. In his meticulously researched The Amish in America: Settlements that Failed, 1840-1960, David Luthy describes a short-lived settlement that came about in the state’s southernmost county. [...]
Continue reading Settlements that Failed: Amish on the Border
Not to hammer the political topic, but a Polish friend just sent a link related to yesterday’s post. This time a reporter from one of Poland’s largest dailies, traveling through the US hot on the Obama/McCain trail, has dug up an Amishman who apparently had no idea that the elections were going on right now. ‘But I [...]
Continue reading Reporter duped by ‘ignorant’ Amishman?
