I am working on a large Holmes County Amish post for later this week. In the meantime a few preview photos and some recent news stories featuring Amish. Holmes & Geauga Holmes County as you probably know is the largest Amish community in Ohio, and along with Lancaster one of the two largest in America. It’s interesting but not surprising that the Geauga County community…
Belated Christmas wishes to everyone here, I trust you spent the time well. Anyone who has yet to travel I hope you’ll complete it safely. Depending on where you are in the world your holiday observances may be continuing today. I know our readers in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are on Boxing Day today. Others know December 26th as St. Stephen’s Day,…
I grew up in a place that got little snow. When winter weather happened in central North Carolina, it was something special. Now I live in a place that gets a lot of it, and it’s not so special. Is this how it works for everyone? You like winter weather if you don’t get much of it, but live in it, and it gets…
The photos below were taken by a reader over the weekend in the Holmes/Wayne County, OH Amish settlement, in areas populated by Swartzentruber Amish. There are also some photos from the Ashland County Swartzentruber community. I’ve added a few comments here and there. Special thanks to our contributor. Looks like they’ve seen some snow lately. This is the first time I’ve seen a sign like…
A reader sends in the following set of photos, of an improvised vehicle in northern Indiana. I guess we could call this an Amish go-kart. “It was quite a custom job,’ he explains. “The steering wheel was fabricated of round steel stock powered by a Honda engine with a drive belt to the rear axle. Whoever assembled it was quite creative. I have no idea…
I am in Florida for a few days and heading to visit the Pinecraft Amish community in Sarasota for the first time today. Palm tree foliage doesn’t seem to change much around these parts. Everything is green here and it feels like July. I like the warmth but I appreciate the change of seasons too. With that in mind today we have some autumn photos…
Corn, pumpkins, and tobacco feature in today’s harvest photos, taken by reader Ed at various times and places in Lancaster County. Enjoy, and thank you Ed.
Vital on-board gear for the open carriage: the heavy-duty umbrella. Handy in shine, or rain. Reader Ed, who took these, says the next two were shot in Smoketown, Pennsylvania, during a, ahem, driving rainstorm: Thanks to Ed for the photos, and the pun. And aren’t you glad your vehicle has a roof?
Do you can? Can, you do? Well, Amish certainly do. A little story of last week’s Lancaster trip: We arrived at my friends’ farm home as the sun was going down, right in the middle of a full-bore canning operation. I could tell they had been busy that day. Dozens of jars filled with chopped chicken occupied the kitchen table, while the canner hummed away…
If you hadn’t heard, last weekend (two Saturdays ago) two Amish teenagers were shot in a bizarre incident in Ashtabula County, Ohio. The teens were picking up stereo equipment from a local English home where it was stored, as they had done numerous times before, when they were fired upon by the property owners. The teens were driven by an English person who was interviewed…