Most tourists who come to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania are fascinated by the Amish and their way of life. And rightfully so. The Amish of Lancaster County are America’s oldest Amish settlement, ...

Gloria took the week after Thanksgiving off from writing the column, but she will be back next week. As her editor and a writer myself, I can attest to the rigors of writing a weekly column. She and I ...

Visitors can sample some of each in Amish country this holiday season. Dine in an Amish home and learn about the religious holiday traditions. Then peruse the loaded shelves of tinsel and tree ...

On a cold December night outside the Shipshewana Furniture store in Indiana, a towering imitation Christmas tree is decorated with sparkling blue-green lights. Then comes a hurried clip-clop, and a ...

The Amish Farm & House will host a tour dedicated to one of the best parts of the holiday season: homemade Christmas cookies. The tour will take visitors to three Amish houses to try ...

Christmas has come and gone for most, but for the Amish community in and around Holmes County, Old Christmas is celebrated Jan. 6. The holiday, however, is not about excessive shopping, overindulging ...

For many people, Christmas serves as a joyous celebration of the previous year, a holiday season roaring in on the heels of lazy Thanksgiving to cap another 12 months of lives lived, birthdays marked, ...

For most of us, Jan. 1 marks the end of the holiday season, whether that's a sad goodbye or a relief. But for some Christians, including many of... Jan 02, 2013 — For most of us, Jan. 1 marks the end ...

This sweet anthology celebrates Christmas in three different Amish communities. It’s easy to sympathize with Beckstrand’s Dottie in “A Perfect Amish Christmas”; she’s so consumed with giving her ...

Three blended Amish families celebrate Christmas in this warmhearted romance anthology. In Long’s “A Sleigh Ride on Ice Mountain,” orphaned Kate is struggling to raise her disabled young brother.

Old Christmas or Epiphany on Jan. 6, "is a way for us to return to our roots, our faith, our community and our family" in Holmes County's Amish Country. Christmas has come and gone for most, but for ...