If a weekend filled with carnivals, baby animals and Amish food sounds like your jam, it's a good weekend to be in Lancaster ...

During this time, an Amish teenager may also join a social group of peers within their community. Their Rumspringa experience, then, would be heavily influenced by the type of group they join.

Lancaster County tourists can get the true VIP experience the Amish way. The Amish Experience has connected visitors with a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the lives of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

The Amish experience many of the same problems as other communities, but keep them private. The oldest group of Old Order Amish, about 16,000-18,000 people, live in Lancaster County, a rural, farming ...

Amish farm tours and Amish products for sale. But the most rewarding experience is to interact one-on-one with this reclusive culture by initiating a conversation on your own with a member of the ...

Although the first Amish arrived in America in the mid 1700s, the European Anabaptist movement began well before that, in 1525, as a radical wing of the Protestant Reformation. Anabaptists ...

Ohio and Pennsylvania are home to 179,000 Amish, all of whom are expected to end their formal studies after the eighth grade so they can return to their families and begin full-time contributions ...

Going into any two Amish churches will result in a slightly different experience. "The differences lie primarily in practice," Burdge said. He uses the German word Ordnung, which means order or ...