Jim McMahon, LancasterHistory curator and director of collections, and Nick Siegert, visitor services associate, will ...

MOUNT HOPE, Ohio—At age 32, Ryan Hershberger has achieved success far beyond his modest roots. He launched a furniture business with two cousins a decade ago and now owns a company that ...

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These images, taken in Lancaster, PA between 2004 and 2010, show contemporary Amish men, women and children. While the Amish generally do not pose for pictures, some will cooperate with ...

Most Amish today will not pose for a photograph. Considering it a violation of the Second Commandment, which prohibits the making of "graven images," the Amish believe any physical representation ...

Today, there are nearly 400,000 smaller and more controversial Amish communities in the United States. Their largest groups live in Pennsylvania, Ohio ... and the wood furniture and decorations ...

According to local news station WGAL, those hospitalized were members of an Amish family and included a man, a woman and nine children. According to WGAL, the family told first responders they ...

A report from Elizabethtown College estimated 90,000 Amish live in Pennsylvania and 84,000 live in Ohio, in addition to sizeable populations in Indiana, Wisconsin, New York and Missouri.

Most Amish voters register as Republicans, he said. .An ad in a Lancaster-area newspaper, attributed to an anonymous “Amishman” from Ohio, said refusing to vote would violate Scripture by ...

MOUNT HOPE, Ohio—At ... milk prices made dairy farming increasingly untenable, many families sought new ways to earn a living ...

The family of 11, with ages ranging from 1 to 39 years old, has since been treated and released getty An Amish family in Pennsylvania was recently hospitalized after ingesting toxic mushrooms.

Wayne Wengerd, Ohio state director of the Amish Steering Committee, which navigates relations between Amish community leaders and government officials, recalls registration efforts as far back as ...