An Amish woman was killed and two passengers in her buggy were flown to a Cincinnati hospital after a pickup truck struck the buggy from behind in Highland County, Ohio on Thursday morning. The crash occurred just after 8:30 AM on U.S. Route 50 in Paint Township. From the Wilmington News Journal: According to a preliminary investigation, a horse-drawn carriage operated by Melinda Coblentz, 49,…
Last week, Haley Straw took us to the most recent edition of the Jamesport, Missouri Amish School Auction. She follows that up with a look back at an earlier visit to the same auction – and some of the many and varied things you find at one of these events. “I always get what I want” is one of my personal mantras. Evidence of that…
To generalize for a moment: Amish children tend to leave a positive impression. Visitors come away remarking how well-behaved they are, how respectful they are when around adults, even how they can seem older than they actually are. The explanation you often hear is strictness. There’s something to that. Amish parents use traditional forms of discipline. But that’s not the whole story. There are other…
This Amish home in Conewango Valley, New York was listed in mid-August at $120,000. Two weeks later, the price has dropped into the five figures (current price revealed at the end – as is our custom on these home posts 🙂 ). If that sounds inexpensive, be aware we’re looking at one of the plainest of all Amish groups. That means very basic amenities –…
Here’s another song from the same 2023 New Order Amish youth singing that gave us “When All of God’s Singers Get Home”. This time it’s “Wonderful Grace of Jesus”. The video is by P. Thomas, who has an extensive collection of live recorded music on his channel, both from Amish and other Christian groups. Like in the previous video, the vantage point is from one…
The new Amish population figures are just out from the Young Center, and as we always do, let’s have a look at what’s new in the data. I pulled out 5 noteworthy findings from the new info which we’ll take a look at one-by-one below. But first, just to set the table: the Young Center puts this data out once per year, relying on a…
Stories about measles in places where the Amish live keep popping up on my news feed, at a seemingly increasing pace. They’re showing up in different regions of the country – the East coast, Northeast, Midwest. Some stories have sections suggesting or leaving readers to draw the conclusion that an outbreak may be happening in or around “Amish Country”, but nothing really directly saying “the Amish…
Lawyers for the Amish plaintiffs in New York’s school vaccine mandate case say their clients will petition the Supreme Court next month – and that if they lose there, the families intend to leave the state. That comes from the New York Post, which reported from the Fort Plain and Canajoharie area this week. Both points answer questions left open when we covered the Second…
Haley Straw is back with a look at the Jamesport, Missouri Amish School Auction. If that sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve seen it covered here before – by Don Burke back in 2014. Let’s have a look at Haley’s experience at the big event, a dozen years later. My daughter and I arrived at the Jamesport Amish School Auction around 10 o’clock, two hours after…
This Amish buggy wreck involves something you don’t often hear of in these crashes – cruise control. The rear-end wreck sent an Amish man to hospital. This happened last week – on August 21 – but is just being reported today. A note on the photo above. The image used in the article linked below is rather graphic, showing blood and also a horse lying…