About 10 days ago, Amish music couple Ben & Rose released a short clip of a new song on their channel: “Dream of Me” (written by Jimmy Darrell, Raleigh Squires, and Buddy Cannon). I held off from sharing it – because I figured that the release of the Short meant that the full song would be just around the corner. Well, it still might appear…
Compared to the last barn move we saw, this one is a lot more straightforward. But still quite impressive. The Amish – reportedly 300 of them (though again I’m not always sure how accurate these numbers are) – pick up and move a 45′ x 72′ pole barn. They carry it directly forward to its new resting spot, for a distance of what looks a…
In another remarkable video, a whole lot of Amish people pick up and “walk” a large barn structure to a new location on the property. There aren’t a ton of details given – no explanation of why the barn is being moved. But overall, this might be the most complex Amish barn move I’ve come across – in a long line of them (more on…
You may have hear the term “published” used about Amish couples planning to be married. But what does it mean to be “published”? Amish mother and author Lovina Eicher explains in her latest Lovina’s Amish Kitchen column: Yesterday daughter Verena and Daniel Ray were “published” to be married on June 20. For the readers that wonder what published means, I will explain. When a couple…
Here’s a nice time-lapse video showing the restoration – really rebuilding – of an old barn which was destroyed in a wind storm. The barn, described as a “100 Year Old Collapsed Barn”, had been bought by a non-Amish family (Vignette Farms) who were attempting to restore it (this is in Indiana). The family explains the back story: We bought a beautiful 1860s home which…
Two weeks have gone by, and it’s time for another Ben & Rose song. They seem to be putting them out at a bit faster pace now – and I’ve got no complaints here 🙂 This time around – something a bit different. While they’ve mostly done Country tunes, this time around it’s a Gospel genre song – “just in time for Easter.” Checking around,…
The Amish are making news for how quickly they’ve repaired damage, following tornadoes in Indiana and Michigan. From wral.com: The report below is from twin tornadoes in Indiana, one of which was rated an EF-1. Before the local National Weather Service could survey some of the damage, an Amish community already made repairs to several roofs that were damaged. In another report, the same National…
There’s a wonderful new Ben & Rose studio song out now (released about two weeks ago, in fact) called “Would You Like To Buy Some Flowers”. I missed it until now, because it was released on a different YouTube channel (more on that below). If you’ve missed previous posts, Ben & Rose are the young Lancaster Amish couple who have quite the talent for country…
I asked Marlene Lehman about the Amish custom of circle letters. If you haven’t heard of the circle letter, it’s a delightfully old-fashioned way for Amish people (with some sort of connection – sometimes “deep”, sometimes based on coincidence) to stay connected across communities. A viewer on YouTube jokingly referred to the circle letter as “Amish group chat”. Marlene explains more in our talk,…
So here’s a different spin on the words “Amish Country”. Making the news right now is this country music song “Slowly But Surely”, performed by a young Amish couple known simply as “Ben & Rose” (video at bottom). Now we’ve seen many Amish singing videos before – and even videos of Amish young people performing with instruments. But this is the first “music video” I’ve…