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Many have left farming and operate small businesses. Farm machinery and telephones have become part of their lives.
May 16, 2004
World & Nation
Members of the sect seldom vote, but some in Ohio and Pennsylvania are vocal in their support for Bush’s stands on values.
Aug. 8, 2004
Amish beard-cutting: Shears cut symbol of manhood, expert says
Aug. 29, 2012
Movies
Amish Take Aim: “Amish Justice,” a proposed movie about an Amish man accused of murder, has revived a controversy first stirred by the 1985 film “Witness,” also about the Pennsylvania Amish.
April 5, 1993
Entertainment & Arts
The teen sex comedy is just the latest Hollywood offering that mines the friction between modern America and the Christian sect.
Oct. 17, 2008
When Dan Hershberger sees orange, he sees red.
Aug. 9, 1988
‘Sex Drive’ is just the latest Hollywood offering that mines the friction between modern America and the Christian sect.
California
IF ANYTHING IS MORE UNIMAGINABLE than the execution-style killings of five Amish girls in their one-room schoolhouse, it is the Amish community’s reaction to the tragedy.
Oct. 4, 2006
Delaware’s Amish community of 2,000 people thrives in semi-obscurity, only 55 miles from their well-known counterparts in Lancaster, Pa.
May 21, 1989
Appeals court says members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don’t need to install septic systems to dispose of ‘gray water.’
July 11, 2023