The same way automakers guard the blueprints for the 1994 models, and the way inventors claim proprietary rights over their discoveries, the Amish try to protect their quilt designs. ”Most of our ...

A Clarkson University computer professional and an Amish builder have teamed up to build an “old-fashioned” timber frame barn ...

In 18 th - and 19 th-century rural North America, barn-raising was a thing. But these days the Amish are among the last communities to carry on this mostly forgotten tradition in which neighbors ...

MARSHALL, Mich. — Members of the Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance announced Thursday, they are working with the Amish community in Albion and with the Calhoun County Fairgrounds, to ...

Big changes for one of our area’s biggest attractions. Amish Acres is now called “the Barns at Nappanee.” The new owners are keeping a lot of the traditions Amish Acres provided. Visitors will still ...

A group of men from the Union Grove Amish Church in Hamptonville, N.C., were the driving force behind a barn raising this past week at Hickory Nut Gap Farm. Located in Fairview, the nearly ...

One by one, the pre-built pine rafters were flipped into the air, guided by ropes and Amish men. The men clambered up to the top of the stable boards and began hammering the rafters in place. In a ...

A group of three men hammered spouting onto the frame of a barn under construction at Donald L. Lomax’s 82-acre cattle farm on Calvary Road near Churchville. At the other end of the structure, another ...