Most people would be surprised to know that in parts of Ohio there are still many one-room schoolhouses. This has come about because of the high number of Amish and Mennonite people who have settled ...

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 ...

Feb. 14—This is the 22nd article written to commemorate the Rush County Bicentennial. Forty-eight years ago I wrote a graduate paper about Amish education. The paper was titled The Educational ...

Geauga senior citizens are invited Feb. 26 to hear a presentation on the history of the Amish, presented by John Gingerich of the Geauga Amish Historical Library. The program will take place at 10:30 ...

"There are a small number of Amish settlements where farming still is the majority occupation," Nolt said. "The larger settlements, say in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in Holmes County, Ohio, and ...

Editor's Note: Lovina is taking this week off to prepare for church services to be held in her home. The process of getting The Amish Cook column from notebook paper to newspaper used to be much more ...

Titled “Disrupting History,” it brought together scholars, former Amish church members and others who have left closed religious sects. “I couldn’t in my wildest dreams have hoped for a more impactful ...

n "The Amish" by Donald B. Kraybill. Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt spent twenty-five years researching Amish history, religion, and culture. Drawing on archival ...

ARTHUR, Ill. (AP) - Efforts to open an Amish history museum in Illinois are underway after the oldest-known Amish house in the state was moved to the site set aside for the project west of ...

There are interesting intersections on a road to preserving a people’s history. For the 12th year, area Amish and Mennonite communities will conduct their annual benefit and auction next Saturday to ...

Organizers of a new Geauga Amish Historical Library are seeking financial donations, bookshelves, display cases, office furniture, old letters, diaries, documents, prayer books, hymnals, German Bibles ...

Amish. Hate. Crimes. These three words suddenly linked arms in the fall of 2011 when a string of beard-cutting attacks startled the Amish community in eastern Ohio. The fact that the perpetrators were ...