The link below is from a reputable source in Lancaster Pa. Relates to a recent Amish automobile tragedy. Well written and a moving read. You might wish to return weekly for more of Mr. Wagler’s blog. Many of the topics are related to Amish issues.
Read the story…
The 2009 Baby & Family Fair is coming to Ohio Amish Country.
On Sat. April 25 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm the fair will be held at the Holmes County Expo Center, SR 39 in Walnut Creek, Ohio. A fun-filled day for the entire family including information, demonstrations, giveaways, prizes, plus activities and contests for [...]
For more than thirty years I’ve lived about three miles from the closest Amish farm and five miles from the Lancaster County line. For a time I had a young woman help with the house (so I could write). Her parents were Old Order Amish and she dressed Plain, though she told me she was [...]
For those of you interested in a taste of Amish things, here’s a real life problem. It comes for the Amish publishing house (Pathway) which prints three monthly papers. Each month their flagship magazine, Family Life, chooses a life problem to explore, in the form of a question and answer, which readers have sent in.
The [...]
Happy news – I finished the draft for Plain Jayne! The draft wrapped last Tuesday, after a marathon writing day that involved almost 3,000 words written in a single day. Crazy!
Next, I’ll be editing the manuscript. I had a friend ask me why I was editing – isn’t that my editor’s job? The answer is that a [...]
I was up to Cattaraugus County, Western, upstate New York, for research the other weekend. Left Virginia on Friday morning early, got up there in time to find the library, county offices, still open. The town of Randolph looked like the likely place to start.
My experience is that the county people usually have a map [...]
I lost my last living Grandparent around Christmas 07. Drove up to Canada from Virginia to attend the funeral. She lived in Ontario, close to the lake, at an Amish community where the Pathway Papers are published.
When I walked in the evening before the funeral, I had remembered to wear black. At my grandmother Eicher’s [...]
The old adage “write what you know” has always bugged me. How much do most of us really “know”? In the past eight years, I have written about murder, the NSA, cryptology, espionage, money laundering, art theft, Napoleonic history, the INS, explosives, poisons, and much more. Given that I’m neither incarcerated nor under an FBI [...]
