Are the Amish driving Teslas now? If you glanced at recent headlines, you might come away with that idea. Ben Zook runs Belmont Solar, located in Lancaster County. According to the story at teslarati.com, they install solar panels in 90 local homes, mostly Amish, each year (I’ve heard of this company before, but never had any direct dealings with it). The hook of the story…
Some Amish homes we see are spick-and-span clean, staged to look beautiful for their photo shoots. In others, Amish family life is captured in all its messy glory. This home belongs to group #2. Here’s the description of this Wisconsin Amish home: Amish farmette. Trophy white tail and turkey hunting with Grant River across the road. Fences around property line. Natural spring. Land levels off…
This story appeared several days ago with scant details attached. Now more has come out and (a bit to my surprise) it’s starting to get national attention. Besides getting a lot of local coverage, Newsweek has now picked it up. Amish in the neighborhood of LaValle, Wisconsin (Sauk County) had been getting harassed in their homes at night. Nine juveniles were cited for disorderly conduct….
Remember the story of a New York State trooper who saved an Amish girl in a runaway buggy? Last month, the NY State Police also released video of the incident, which I filed away, and, frankly, forgot to share with you 🙂 So I’ve got that for you today. To recall what happened, as reported in the Sun Community News: On May 16, Trooper James…
I’ve got a very simple and what I’m calling “super basic” Amish home to share with you this week. You’ll see why I gave it that nickname in a minute. The location is one of Tennessee’s 14+ Amish settlements, in the area of Stantonville (McNairy County). This is a Swartzentruber Amish community and it has been around a little while – since 2009. The latest…
I can’t highlight every Amish buggy accident, because sadly there are just too many of them. But I wanted to draw attention to this story for a pair of reasons. One is that it’s my home state of North Carolina. You don’t hear about buggy accidents so much in NC, simply because the Amish population is so small. The buggy accident happened two weeks…
The latest Amish population estimates are up at the Young Center’s Amish Studies website. There are several interesting bits here, starting with the total estimated population of the Amish (United States + Canada + Bolivia) reaching 401,005 people. The total number of Amish settlements is up to 675. Here are five more interesting facts in the latest data: 1. The Amish have left Manitoba Manitoba…
This Lancaster County Amish community home is going up for auction in about two weeks. It’s also listed in Zillow with a full array of beautiful photos, so let’s have a look. On the outside at least, this is a more traditional-looking home than the previous Lancaster County Amish home we looked at here. It’s an old brick farmhouse with an addition or two. This…
The 10-month old wasn’t the only one thrown from the buggy. Also ejected were a 2-year-old and a 24-year-old Amish person. You might assume this was a family, and the 24-year-old was the mother. There aren’t a lot of details but the 30-year-old buggy driver – I’m assuming the father – had to be flown to hospital. Having to be flown somewhere might mean his…
The story of the Amish using e-bikes is not a new one. Particularly in Holmes County, Ohio (but also in other progressive settlements), the zippy transporters have been on the rise for years now. I remember seeing them used by Amish there for the first time in 2018 (though they’d been around a while already). Suffice to say it catches your eye when you see…