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Operatives are working around the Christian community’s lack of cellphones and cars to mobilize a reliably conservative bloc ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS - Mueller Furniture, a family-owned business rooted in the Belleville community since 1927, has expanded its ...

No smartphones, no internet – and no electricity. Making butter with an American Amish community presented Sydney’s Pepe Saya ...

The drawers are found in closets and mudrooms, home offices, and laundry rooms in the Midwest and across the U.S. Even living areas and garages utilize Amish-made dovetail drawers. For instance ...

She worried about how she'd manage to pay her bills on the slim salary she made working at a factory ... to rebel against the traditionalist Amish lifestyle upheld by her parents, seven brothers ...

and it made me feel free." There are pieces of her past that Swartzentruber misses now that she's lived 27 years in the modern world. She appreciates the Amish's simple, family-oriented lives.

The design often features clean lines and functional pieces built to last for decades. Artisans of the Amish community take great pleasure in their work and use methods handed down through generations ...

She and her mother took their horse and buggy to make an uncommon trip seven miles away from their rural Amish community in Iowa. “We went to town to get feed for the horses and stuff at the ...