What makes this home particularly interesting is that it is another, originally English-built, home that a Swartzentruber family converted to their needs. This is actually the second home from this community at Whitefield, Maine (previously we had a look at the home I nicknamed “blue barn”). You can tell instantly that it’s not built in […]
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In this new video I look at Amish beliefs on marriage, divorce, separation, and marrying again. Do Amish permit divorce? What about remarriage? Are there unhappy marriages and what happens? Runtime 4:22.
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How would you like to manage the shopping, food prep, and cleanup to feed 1,000+ people? Lovina Eicher is facing this task as she prepares for the upcoming wedding of her daugher Loretta, as she writes in her latest column. She will, of course, have some help: Yesterday my three head cooks came, and we […]
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Joe Donnermeyer of the Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities guest posts today with a look at multi-settlement Amish counties across America. In March I did a list of 10 Amish “supercounties” – which I defined as having at least five settlements (full or partial) within their borders. Joe expands on that list with this guest […]
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The addresss for this latest home is Curryville, but the community is better known as the Bowling Green settlement (Pike County, MO). We’ve got a three-church-district community that is the Show Me State’s oldest, having been first settled back in 1947 by Swiss Amish from Indiana. I first began hearing about this settlement around a […]
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This is a neat story on how a local non-Amish resident of Medina County, Ohio has taken matters into his own hands to try to help Amish neighbors be safer on the roads. There have been multiple recent car-buggy accidents in the area, and Jim Coleman decided to try to do something about it, reports […]
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I just finished a video on the Amish and music. I cover three main topics: Amish singing – when and where do they sing, songbooks, and more; musical instruments – do Amish play them and which ones; and popular music – do Amish enjoy popular music, what types, etc. I’ve included at least a half-dozen […]
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We’re back with part 2 of a two-part Q & A with Don Burke on his Amish photography. If you missed part 1 you can catch up here. In this part Don shares how he chooses which communities to visit, what he’s learned from taking Amish photos, and more. Amish America: Have you ever gotten […]
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What is an “Amish taxi”? Do Amish ever own or drive cars? How do the most conservative Amish travel? Why do Amish use the horse-and-buggy? What about Uber? Although we associate them with simpler modes of travel, many Amish depend heavily on car transport. I made a video recently looking at the role that motor […]
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Just a small addendum to the post on the tragic loss of a three-year-old in upstate New York. In that one I made the frequently-made point that different Amish do things differently, and also that some ways of being Amish are more dangerous on the whole than others. Following that post, Jim Halverson has sent […]
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