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…
From the Decatur, Illinois Herald & Review: SULLIVAN — If something is worth inventing, it’s worth inventing again. Armed with that kind of reassurance, Sullivan entrepreneur Larry Yoder has gone ahead and reinvented the horseless carriage “because I had a ball doing it.” And it really is a carriage: He’s taken a former Amish buggy and built solar panels into the roof to feed batteries…
When we hit the dog days of summer, there are times I just feel like crawling into the freezer, closing the door and hanging out in there awhile (I guess I’d need a bigger freezer to make this dream happen). Home freezers are another one of those once-luxuries, now-conveniences which we use, really 24/7, but tend to take for granted. Not all Amish have such easy…