A dead horse lay in the snowy field still attached to its mangled buggy. Henry Troyer, the 27-year-old Amish driver, lay nearby barely clinging to life as the sun rose in the east. A black lantern box ...

When life feels too complicated, I can regain a sense of balance by driving to farmland where Amish families intentionally live quietly, simply and conservatively. Add “mysteriously,” if you’ve had ...

Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move farther west, researchers said. “It is growing fast,” said Kyle Kopko, an Amish ...

The fertile backcountry of rural Tennessee offers a vital lifeline to the Amish, a deeply traditional community living apart from the modern world. join a Tour for a taste of life in this unique ...

Torah Bontrager left her Amish community in the middle of the night at age 15, crawling through a bathroom window while the rest of her family slept. She traveled from Iowa to Wisconsin to live with ...

The old-fashioned ways of the Amish are helping researchers make new discoveries about the origins of asthma. By studying the blood, genes and environmental dust of 30 Amish children from traditional ...

Clopping hooves on a rural road in Gladwin County went silent after an SUV attempted to pass a bus and struck an Amish buggy head-on about 6:30 a.m. on March 6. Twenty days later, a woman accused of ...

A group of Amish dairy farmers have lost their milk buyer, putting their livelihood and way of life at risk, as a crisis deepens in America’s dairyland. Farmers across the nation are headed into their ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — About 100 miles north of Washington DC, at the nexus of quiet country roads, sits a network of bustling small businesses and community connections that helped deliver the swing ...

Coauthored with Jeanette Harder, Ph.D. Understanding Amish values and customs helps us support families and communities to keep their children safe. In this piece, we provide background on various ...