Pocahontas County, West Virginia is home to a rather small Amish community of just a few dozen people. The Amish arrived here in 2023, and for the past two years have been running a market store that sounds like it has become quite popular in the area. Attesting to that, one patron writes: What a local treasure! This store has everything, from bulk dry goods…
A young Amish man has lost his life in a tragic accident that apparently was caused when he turned his buggy into the path of a logging truck. This happened yesterday in Allegany County, New York. From New York Upstate: Willing, N.Y. — A man was killed after a logging truck hit an Amish buggy this week in Upstate New York. The deadly crash happened…
Allen Hoover makes toned-down, “offline” computers for the Amish and Mennonite community. And not everyone in the community likes him for it, according to a new interview. Hoover is an Old Order Mennonite man in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who has been providing “Plain” computing solutions for Amish and Mennonites for over two decades. The appeal of these machines: devices which provides business functionality – but…
The latest hit-and-run on an Amish buggy took place Friday in St. Lawrence County, New York, home to multiple Amish communities. Fortunately, no one was killed, but an Amish man was taken to hospital with injuries. Also presumably good news: the driver allegedly responsible was soon identified and charged. More from WWTI: Around 5:30 p.m. Friday, a hit-and-run collision involving an Amish buggy occurred on…
I wanted to share some photos from my visit to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania last month. Starting Saturday night and into Sunday morning, we got a nice solid snow, which left the area blanketed in a beautiful white fluffy layer. The next morning, church service was conveniently being held at the home of friends where I was staying, so it was a great chance to attend….
Here’s a first for Ben & Rose’s channel – a song sung in German. In this short clip, Ben plays guitar as Rose sings a section of the hymn “Jesu, Jesu, Brunn des Lebens” (Jesus, Jesus, Fountain of Life). Maybe they’ve performed in German before, but they don’t have any songs in the language yet on YouTube. The clip (at bottom of post) is just…
We had some good news on the Amish family in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, involved in a head-on collision earlier this week. All ten people involved were injured – one Amish adult, eight Amish children, and the car driver. Initial reports suggested a bad scene, with a three-month-old baby “trapped under the buggy”. But good news came later the following day when local sources reported that…
“Suddenly Amish” is TLC’s new “reality” show which, we are told, places six outsiders into an Amish community where each “contemplates the possibility of converting into Amish society”. The first episode premiered several days ago, and has been getting a flurry of media coverage. As I noted in my post two weeks ago (“What’s the Deal With ‘Suddenly Amish’?”), this is the fish-out-of-water formula again,…
This is a bad one. There were nine Amish people in the buggy, eight of whom were children, including a three-month-old baby. The tenth injured person is the driver of the vehicle – which struck the buggy head-on yesterday in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Details as far as the extent of injuries are scarce. Some are seriously injured, though there are no reports of fatalities at…
This Amish home lies near the wonderfully-named Summer Shade, Kentucky. There is an Amish community here in Barren County (though the place called Summer Shade technically lies in a neighboring county). These photos show us a pretty traditional Amish home, especially downstairs. Upstairs, we see signs that this is quite a musically-inclined Amish family. The description: What’s special: Amish built farmhouse, large 40 x 80…