The film explores the history and lifestyle of the Amish community, tracing their origins from Swiss dissenters in the 17th century who sought to live according to the teachings of Jesus. It ...

Many people are fascinated by the Amish community. The reason it appears that Amish people are stuck in the past is not that ...

The Amish arrived late among the European settlers of Lancaster County, establishing the first church district north of Eden beginning in 1741. The original members of that district were Garbers, ...

HARMONY, MINN. – Eddie Swartzentruber’s childhood growing up in Minnesota’s Driftless Area was different than many of his “worldly” neighbors. There was no TV or video games — or even electricity, for ...

An aerial view shows the scope of the effort to relocate a nearly 150-year-old barn from a Douglas County farm to the Illinois Amish Heritage Center campus in the heart of Amish country, between ...

In the mid-1700s, Amish families fleeing persecution in Europe settled in what is now Berks and Lancaster counties. The Amish in Berks County were known as the Northkill settlement, named after the ...