Alice Aber shares a pile of pics from a trip to the Arthur, Illinois Amish community. Â A special thanks to Alice; I think you’ll enjoy these photos: See Alice’s photos of the Roselen’s Amish coffee shop at Arthur. Read more on the Arthur Amish and Amish furniture in Illinois.
Taken yesterday in Nappanee, Indiana. These guys were part of the afternoon rush hour after the local RV factories let off work. Once the train had passed, they could hardly wait for the barriers to raise before they were off and pedaling hard.
Branch County, Michigan is home to 5 Amish settlements. Â I visited two of them a couple of days ago. Â Some photos: On a little red potato treasure hunt. My favorite kind of sky. Tetherball! Can you say sunny. Healthy stuff. While farming is still important to many Amish, others have started small enterprises. Michigan Amish businesses include small stores, carpentry crews, and woodworking shops (read…
SMV triangle, streamlined top, mini-door.  What is this thing?  A road-ready chicken coop? I took this photo yesterday in the Allen County (Grabill) Indiana Amish settlement. Today I’m off to Michigan.  Will have more on this photo tomorrow, but til then, what do you think?
I’m off to Indiana this morning. Â A few highlights of the past week in Ohio: Sitting with an Amish friend one afternoon, we made plans to take my truck up the road to visit his father. Â “Do you want me to drive?” asked my friend. Â I turned around and checked with his wife. Â “Can he drive?” Â “Well, he can” came her response. Â “I wasn’t asking…
It was a wonderful day in Holmes County yesterday. Â Early rain, which meant a lot of laundry under porches. Â But that went away in a hurry after noon. Â Here’s the proof:
I’ll be hitting the road for Holmes County, Ohio this weekend.  I’ve got plans to attend Sunday School with friends in a New Order Amish congregation. The rest of the week should be a lot of visiting and maybe even a side trip to an off-the-beaten-path community.  I have been on my “Rocky” diet, training hard and dropping weight this week in anticipation of putting it all…
Back in January, I shared a few slides of Lancaster County, circa 1963. Â Here are a few more: Would today’s Lancaster Amish women consider this overdressed? Lancaster County has the second-most covered bridges of any county in America. Â The #1 county? Parke County, Indiana, where a group of Lancaster Amish moved in the 1990s. Â Here’s one in Lancaster: For those that might think Amish styles…
A full one-third of Delaware’s counties have Amish settlements. Okay, Delaware only has three counties (yep, that kind of sounds like a joke you’d hear an Amish guy make). Delaware’s sole Amish settlement nestles against state capital Dover. Â Amish have been here almost 100 years. It’s a decent-sized community, actually: 9 church districts, over 1000 people. Â Amish have been leaving though. Â Land is expensive next…