Amish people know the risks involved in farm labor, Nolt said, not just for children but for adults. But they value the family farm and they value the work and the cultural bonds built through ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daniel Beiler, 33, an emergency medical technician and aid volunteer who grew up in a traditional Amish community in Pennsylvania.

People in Amish country prepare a horse team to work on a farm in Pulaski, Pa., Wednesday, June 23, 2021. In 2023, LNP | LancasterOnline reported on three fatal farm accidents.

It would be romantic to pretend that time ground to a standstill somewhere in the 1800s, that nothing but buggies drive down Amish Boulevard, a flat, unbending stretch of road a mile east of ...

The reality is that Amish Country tourism has long been at odds with the plain and simple life of the Amish—a discrepancy at the heart of my 2012 book Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia.

Could you live well without electricity? A few days on an Amish farm in Ohio showed me how it’s done. Earlier this month, husband Bruce and I delivered a cow to Harley and Sarah, who invited us ...