Officials in one Maryland county are getting a message out to the public – one that’s relevant not only for their part of the country, but for many others. For safety’s sake, the community wants people to be aware of Amish wedding season, going on now in the Amish settlement at St. Mary’s County, MD. The traditional Amish “wedding season” runs after the harvest, from…
Haley Straw is back with the fourth installment on what it’s like to be an Amish taxi driver. Here’s part one, part two and part three if you missed them. Setting Boundaries, Asking Questions Edna called one day and asked if I was available on October 10th. “Yes,” I said. “Great,” she replied. “We’d like to be picked up at 10:00 p.m.” Okay, I thought……
It’s been a little while since we’ve seen a good Amish barn move. This one is courtesy of Jamie Dinger on Facebook, and looks like it happened back in September. Going through the many comments, it seems this was somewhere in Iowa. It’s unclear where however, suggestions include the Bloomfield area, Kalona, and northeast Iowa. No matter for now, it’s a great video of another…
Yates County, New York saw a bad buggy wreck yesterday afternoon, leaving three seriously injured and a horse dead. But these (in all likelihood) weren’t Amish victims. Yates County is home to an Old Order Mennonite population. Old Order Mennonites typically use horse-drawn vehicles similar to those of the Amish. It’s a reminder that not only the Amish are exposed to horse-drawn accident danger on…
This tune is another pairing of Ben & Rose with Amos Raber. We’ve actually heard them already together on this track – but without the video. It’s another nice one, which is described on Amos’s channel like this: Fill My Cup, Lord is a great gospel song that beautifully portrays a heart seeking for the living water that one can only find in Jesus Christ!…
Haley Straw returns today with the third installment on what it’s like to be an Amish taxi driver. Here’s part one and part two if you missed them. Where’s your favorite place to travel by car? For me, it might be to visit family, a thrift shop, hike, or even head to a place of amusement. Most of us jump in without a second thought—but…
A tragic accident happened yesterday morning in Macon County, Missouri – and not one you might expect to see involving Amish people. More from KTVO: WEST OF ETHEL, Mo. — A member of a northeast Missouri Amish community was killed in a Macon County forklift crash Tuesday morning. The tragedy happened just before 7:30 a.m. on Beechnut Street, three miles west of Ethel. The state trooper…
I was informed yesterday that David Luthy had passed away earlier in the morning. Among other things, David was an Amish historian, founder and maintainer of the Heritage Historical Library, and an editor and contributor to Family Life, one of the most well-known and influential publications in the Amish and Plain Anabaptist world. Personally, he was one of the people who, through his writings, helped…
The Township calls this a “recurring issue”: people – it seems they mean primarily Amish people – building structures such as horse barns without following the rules. The current matter involves a man in East Earl Township Earl Township* (Lancaster County, PA), reported a few days ago at Lancaster Online. *Corrected: the township in question is Earl, which is not the same as East Earl….
There have been a spate of car-buggy crashes reported in Kentucky over the past several days. Some quite serious, starting with this wreck in central Kentucky which claimed a young man’s life. 1. 19-Year-Old Killed in Casey County First, the most serious (at least at this point). It involved a van and a buggy driven by a 19-year-old Amish male. This happened in Casey County,…