Waiting to be filled near Mount Hope, Ohio

A nice article appeared last week in the Maysville Ledger Independent, on the May’s Lick, Kentucky Amish settlement. In it we see a great example of a community helping out newcomers in a time of need. An Amish woman named SaraEtta Coblentz describes how several families from Indiana made the move to this corner of Kentucky in 2004. It sounds like they chose a good…

So if you’re not into “social media drama”, just skip this post. I don’t plan to make a habit of covering things from Facebook, but I need to address this here. You might remember a post I did in August about Eddie Swartzentruber’s TikTok channel (“Swartzentruber Amish-Raised Man Shares The Bad Sides Of His Amish Life“). Eddie responded on Facebook, making some false claims about…

This is not really an Amish story, but “Amish” ended up in the headlines incidentally. A group of Amish boys in Hillsdale County, Michigan stumbled across a body in the woods last week. Authorities have determined the 37-year-old-man died of multiple gunshot wounds. From the Hillsdale Collegian: Joseph Graber, a 12-year-old boy who lives less than a mile away from the crime scene, was one of…