Lancaster's Amish settlement is divided into districts of about 40 families each. They hold church every other Sunday in someone's home. Each family hosts church about once every 11 months, Hannah ...

Lancaster County is home to the oldest and largest Amish community in the United States.The Amish are known for their simple lifestyle. They are private people who believe God called them to a ...

Lancaster County tourists can get the true VIP experience the Amish way. The Amish Experience has connected visitors with a ...

Lancaster, Pa., is changing as only about a third of the fast-growing religious group there still farm. Most Amish heads of household work in businesses and construction these days.

One of the many facets in Lancaster County not connected to the Amish involves an important piece of presidential history. The county was the home of James Buchanan, the 15th president of the ...

In Paul Stoltzfus' world, the men are good carpenters and craftsmen. They build barns and homes. "I'm not one of them," the 52-year-old Amish man said, smiling as he eased back into a chair at his ...

A woman arranges berries at Glick's Produce stand at the Markets at Shrewsbury, an Amish market near one of Pennsylvania's newest Amish settlements in Glen Rock, York County, on July 4, 2019. Over ...

Late last spring a COVID-19 wave tore through the Plain community when they resumed church services, infecting an untold number of Amish and Mennonites in Lancaster County. The administrator of a ...

The Amish "are a strong and united culture, and we can learn that from them," Carlos Manuel Cruz, owner of a mechanic shop in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said. IE 11 is not supported.

INTERCOURSE, Pa. -- "Come home, come home, it's supper time. . . ." In their gaslit kitchen, a bearded Amish man in suspenders and his plain-dressed wife croon folk songs for the German and ...

A couple of Amish children look out the window of a horse-drawn cart during a rainy day ride along Old Philadelphia Pike in Gordonville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in March 2020.