AmishReaders, if you haven’t had the chance to yet to read Abigail’s New Hope by one of our favorite authors here at AmishReader.com, Mary Ellis, it’s now available. It’s a beautiful story of second chances–I’ve put the trailer for it below. (Our friends at FaithfulReader.com are currently doing a giveaway for it–be sure to visit [...]
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. ************** A New Normal Recently, I dined [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hello everyone, A story appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on 3-20-09, written by reporters Michael Sangiancomo and Donna J. Miller. I have included a link to the online archives if you’re interested in reading the entire story. To quote from the article, “Two Amish women found a guardian angel with a car Wednesday evening [...]
