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Do you can?
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. Â 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…
The Nebraska Amish
The Nebraska Amish find themselves on the ultraconservative edge of Amish society. ‘Nebraska’ is something of a misnomer, however. This group is found mainly in Mifflin County, PA, in the diverse ‘Big Valley’ region. A second, smaller group is found in northeastern Ohio. The Nebraska tag comes from the origin of the group’s founding bishop, Yost H. Yoder. Today there are a number of subgroups…
Can You Guess The 12 Items On This Amish “Mystery Breakfast” Menu? (Updated with Answers)
A fun culinary event enjoyed by Amish youth at Belle Center, Ohio, is the “mystery supper”. Participants receive a menu of creatively-named items to riddle through, and have a time limit in which to make their picks for each of three courses. Guess poorly, and you can end up with, for example, only utensils and water for one of your courses. A few years ago, Belle Center…
Amish Life In Shipshewana (Video)
This 3-minute video from Voice of America News is a nice general look at Amish/Anabaptist life as well as the Shipshewana, Indiana area, home to America’s third-largest Amish population. The meat of the video is an interview with Alvin Miller, member of a local Amish Mennonite church who grew up Old Order, discussing the Amish and related groups. A few interesting points made in the video:…
Community Supports Grieving Amish Family; 6-Year-Old Survivor In Stable Condition [Updated]
Both Amish and English members of the Vermontville, Michigan community have come together to support the family who lost three children in a buggy accident Wednesday. Below we’ve got comments from Amish and English locals. There’s also information if you’d like to send a card or donate money to support this family. The good news here is that the fourth rider in the buggy –…
The peculiar ‘White’ Jonas Stutzman
Sitting on the lawn around the firepit last week with some Amish friends, talk turned to ‘White’ Jonas Stutzman, who once lived just a few miles away. Stutzman was one of the first Amish settlers in Holmes County. He was also one of the oddest. photo: behalt.com ‘White’ Jonas is portrayed in a local attraction, Behalt–a huge cycloramic painting of Anabaptist history, done about fifteen…