Tourists curious about the Amish flock to their communities to see them and the Amish may not like the attention, but they ...

Discover the simple, traditional method to make old-fashioned root beer the Amish way, using no fancy equipment—just natural ingredients and patience!

“I think the Amish have a way of unsettling us,” said Steven Nolt, a professor of history and Anabaptist studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.

The Amish fall under the umbrella term of plain people, which is a group of people who dress in modest and plain clothing and adhere to a more traditional way of life.

But, again, that way of being Amish is simply no longer possible for most Amish. So, their relationship to tourism and tourists is complicated. They’d rather they didn’t need tourism to make a ...

The Amish fall under the umbrella term of plain people, which is a group of people who dress in modest and plain clothing and adhere to a more traditional way of life.