Hello, Amish Readers! If you haven’t read Jerry Eicher’s latest release yet, I hope you will soon–I think you’ll love it. Ella Finds Love Again is the wonderful conclusion to his Little Valley Series. If you haven’t seen the book trailer yet, it’s here:
The following is a re-print from the Amish newsletter, Wheat Ridge Exchange… A group of Alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the Professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
