Today we’re back with the follow-up to last week’s piece by Haley Straw, “An Amish Department Store Without Walls.” As Haley explains, you never quite know what might catch your eye at an Amish auction. By the time I’d been to the Jamesport (Missouri) Amish School Auction a few times, I had a better idea of what to expect—or at least I thought I did….
Last week, Haley Straw took us to the most recent edition of the Jamesport, Missouri Amish School Auction. She follows that up with a look back at an earlier visit to the same auction – and some of the many and varied things you find at one of these events. “I always get what I want” is one of my personal mantras. Evidence of that…
Haley Straw is back with a look at the Jamesport, Missouri Amish School Auction. If that sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve seen it covered here before – by Don Burke back in 2014. Let’s have a look at Haley’s experience at the big event, a dozen years later. My daughter and I arrived at the Jamesport Amish School Auction around 10 o’clock, two hours after…
I hate to share this news, but it’s being reported that a farm accident claimed the life of another Amish child Friday. An eight-year-old boy was pronounced dead this morning at a home in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. More from the CBS Pittsburgh report: An 8-year-old died after an accident involving farm equipment in Mercer County on Friday morning, authorities said. In a public information release…
Nearly three months after the April fire that killed an Amish mother and her six children in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, state police say they cannot determine what caused it. The reason: too much destruction to work with. From the report at PennLive: The cause of the fire in Clinton County that killed an Amish mother and her six children three months ago could not be…
Emergency crews in central Pennsylvania were called to an Amish farm on Saturday evening after a person was run over by a horse. The call came in shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Responders were drawn from both Dauphin and neighboring Perry County. A few details, per PennLive, citing county 911 dispatchers: The call, reported as a traumatic injury,…
Rain tapped steadily against the metal roof while muddy boots shuffled across the floor of the open shed. The building wasn’t insulated — just a tall shell of a structure with church benches lined up beneath dim gray light filtering in through the open doors. Outside, vans sat parked in a wet field, tires slowly sinking deeper into the mud as the rain kept falling….
Reports are coming out over the past hour that authorities in deep southern Illinois are asking for help finding a young Amish man who hasn’t been seen since Friday evening. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is searching for 20-year-old Joseph Kaufman, who they’ve classified as an “at risk” missing person. Here are the main details concerning his description via KFVS: According to the sheriff’s office,…
Today we’ve got more photos from Jim Halverson’s visit to a retirement auction in Gladwin County, Michigan. It’s a “retirement” auction because the family holding it are apparently getting out of the dairy business. As they write in the sale bill, “We are retiring and will offer the following at Public Auction.” It happens commonly enough. In many cases, a willing son and his family,…
Amish life presents certain hazards that typical non-Amish life does not. Those can include dangers when traveling by buggy, working on the farm, or even dangers from non-electric fuels in the home. Adding a lot of children to the mix, as is the norm for Amish families, adds another layer to the topic. Of course, Amish parents teach their children the do’s and don’ts for…