One Amish family in Geauga County, Ohio is facing great tragedy this Thanksgiving. From Newsweek: One child died and 10 people were injured when a fire tore through the home of an Amish family Wednesday evening in Middlefield, Ohio. The two-year-old was declared dead on arrival at nearby UH Geauga Medical Center, according to NBC-affiliate WKYC. The first fire crews arrived at the two-story, wood-framed house at 6.21…
What does it feel like to auction off your loved ones’ possessions? Those special things that have accumulated over a lifetime and hold stores of precious memories? For the Amish, this is the way things work when the aged pass on. Amish Cook Gloria Yoder writes this week about auctioning off her grandparents’ estate, following her grandmother’s recent passing: Ever since Grandma’s death, I knew…
Do Amish parents have celebrations for new babies? Who is present at the birth? What does it take to be a good midwife? What if you get to the birth late? Do Amish have children out of wedlock? Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for A Midwife in Amish Country author Kim Osterholzer. I chose a selection of these which Kim has answered, plus a…
Amish pop up in the news all the time, but we can’t always do full posts on every story. So today we’ll briefly cover 5 of them. I’ve also shared some of my favorite recent reader comments at the end of this post. So here’s a new type of post to get you caught up. Hope you enjoy, and if you like this, we’ll keep doing…
Gloria Yoder is an Amish mother from Illinois who writes the Amish Cook column (previously penned by Lovina Eicher). Gloria was recently asked by a reader “What five things do you enjoy the most about the Amish way of life?”, and in this week’s column, she answers. Gloria starts with a couple of important disclaimers: First, I will insert that there really are more different…
From the article in Mennonite World Review: Though the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wisconsin v. Yoder decision has traditionally been hailed as a religious freedom victory for the Amish, some Amish people want to challenge the 1972 ruling. That’s one thing the founders of the Amish Heritage Foundation, a new organization with a goal “to reclaim our Amish narrative,” will discuss at their first conference. ……
Can you guess which four books are found in Lancaster County Amish homes, according to one Amish informant? The latest Scribbler column at Lancaster Online looks into the topic. Scribbler Jack Brubaker was told by a local Amish person that you can count on finding these four books in each Lancaster County Amish home: The Bible – The Amish use the Martin Luther German version…
WTVB reports that an Amish family with two children with special needs will receive funds for a custom-made buggy from Michigan’s Children’s Special Needs Fund. There isn’t a lot of info in this article, but the story is interesting, on a couple of counts. From wtvbam.com (Branch County, MI): HILLSDALE, MI (WTVB) – An Amish family in Camden is getting some help for two children with…
Donald Kraybill is retired, but hasn’t slowed down much as far as putting out books. He has a new one out called Simply Amish, a short overview of the Amish. He recently sat down with LNP/Lancaster Online to answer some reader questions on camera, about the Amish in general but with a focus on Lancaster County. This spawned an article outlining six main takeaways from…
It’s graduation time for Amish eighth-graders. Lancaster Online shares a closer look at Amish and Old Order Mennonite schools in Lancaster County. Last year they published something similar, covered here. Here are 5 more things of interest from this year’s article (with comments from me in italics): 1. Different ways to get to school – there are several common ways Amish children get to school….