The following excerpt is from an article on my website about the Amish school shooting. It was written as supplemental material for my book A Pocket Guide to Amish Life, but given the Lifetime movie of the same topic, I thought I might post some of it here as well.
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A New Normal
Recently, I dined in the [...]
It’s always fun when one of my author friends has a new book out, but this week I’m especially excited about the release of Amish expert Erik Wesner’s Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive, from Jossey-Bass Publishers. If you’ve read the acknowledgements in my own Shadows of Lancaster County and A [...]
There’s a TV movie called “Amish Grace” that will air on the Lifetime Movie Network on Sunday, March 28, 5 p.m. eastern/8 p.m. pacific. It looks like it will be good. It’s based on the tragedy at Nickel Mines, where a man walked into an Amish school and injured/killed some little girls. But the real story is [...]
The following twenty test sentences where published in the Amish monthly, The Family Life, February 2010 issue. They all contain mistakes in grammar, spelling, or usage–in the editors opinion. Readers are told to try their hand at correcting the sentences, with five points deducted from 100 for each wrong answer. Just to tweak things a [...]
