Amish
Overview
The year 1993 marked the existence of 300 years of Amish life. Extinct in their European homeland, today they live in more than 200 settlements in 22 states and the Canadian province of...
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The Amish are a peaceful, agricultural, religious society of people who believe in a life of discipline and hard work. Affiliation with the Amish church isn't just a matter of attending services on Su...
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In the story "Witness", it tries to get across how different cultures mix together and how they deal with their differences. The police officer in the film "John Book" has a totally different way of l...
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In the mid the seventeenth century, the Amish movement was founded in Europe at the time of the Protestant Reformation. They are derived from a group impatient with the pace of reform in the existing ...
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After years of resistance, a growing number of Amish families are putting their farms into land preservation programs.While Amish farmers traditionally spurn government programs, younger Amish bish...
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A tire blowout may have caused a van carrying passengers from an Amish community to flip over on a highway, killing three children and two adults, police said Monday. Eleven others were injured in ...
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Amish families kept to their homes Tuesday as they privately marked the anniversary of a schoolhouse attack that killed five girls a year ago.In keeping with Amish custom, no public observances wer...
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One shooting survivor depends entirely on her family for care and is fed through a tube. Another just endured surgery to repair a damaged shoulder and arm. A third suffers lasting vision problems.T...
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A year after 10 of their female classmates were shot, some boys who escaped unharmed from West Nickel Mines Amish School are tormented by guilt, according to the author of a new book about the mass...
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Amish families sang hymns, prayed and shared a meal with state troopers and other guests on Monday to mark the first anniversary of a massacre at a one-room schoolhouse.State Police Commissioner Je...
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The first state trooper to breach the Amish school where 10 girls were shot last year got inside by ripping out part of a window frame with his bare hands, helping save the lives of five of them, t...
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From the moment a gunman began shooting 10 girls in an Amish schoolhouse last year, 2 1/2 agonizing minutes ticked by before state police were able to force their way into the barricaded building, ...
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THE AMISH COOKBY LOVINA EICHER We had a crisp, cold eight degrees early this morning. Now, at 10:30 a.m., it is already up to 19 degrees. We also had single digit lows a few days ...
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