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Woman With 0.14 BAC Hits Amish Buggy Carrying Five, Including Baby — Then Flees Wrong Way On Highway

Erik Wesner — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:53:01 +0000

An intoxicated 25-year-old woman struck an Amish buggy in Kosciusko County, Indiana several days ago, leaving behind multiple injured victims, and ultimately a trail of ugliness. And I say this is one of the uglier such stories, for several reasons. Those include what happened to the Amish victims involved – but especially for this person’s alleged behavior after the wreck happened. A Series of Bad...

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A Return To Virginia’s Oldest Amish Community — And The Woman Who Left Something Beautiful Behind (15 Photos)

Erik Wesner — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:42:17 +0000

Reader Shawn has been visiting the Amish community at Pearisburg, Virginia for over a decade now. The first visit of Shawn’s we saw here was back in 2014, followed by a return in 2016 to check on the newly opened Walker Valley Market. I’ve made a couple of visits myself – one on a rainy February day in 2020, and another in December 2020 when...

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Amish Teen Killed on Fishing Trip After Car Rear-Ends Open Buggy in Kentucky

Erik Wesner — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:10:40 +0000

Another tragic buggy crash has claimed the life of a young member of an Amish community in northern Kentucky, and left two others injured. The crash happened this past Saturday in Carroll County, Kentucky, as local Amish youth were on a fishing trip. According to reporting by the Madison Courier: The teens were traveling along with other teens from an Old Order Amish community in...

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Big Amish Crowd Turns Out For Central Michigan Auction (16 Photos)

Erik Wesner — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:22:27 +0000

Jim Halverson recently attended an auction in Gladwin County, Michigan. As you can see from the photos, it was a well-attended event, likely in the hundreds of people. It happened this past Friday, May 29. Auctions are a fixture of Amish community life. They may be estate sales, farm sales, benefit events, or simply a regular community consignment auction. Whatever the occasion, they tend to...

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Ben & Rose AND Mike & Marty: “Palms of Victory”

Erik Wesner — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:41:24 +0000

Ben and Rose have joined with Rose’s siblings Mike and Marty to do a lovely rendition of “Palms of Victory”. This just released today, and I bet it’s going to get a lot of listens 🙂 Rose was previously in a group with brother Mike and sister Marty, called Third Fret Harmony, which we’ve seen here before. Really neat to see them uniting/re-uniting on this...

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Echoes from Amish Country: My First Trip Home

Haley Straw — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:26:16 +0000

The van heater hummed while the sky was still black outside, and I was deep asleep when— Rap tap tap, rap tap tap, rap tap tap. “Hey, Haley, are you awake?” David B’s baritone voice jolted me upright. I blinked at the clock. 6:00 a.m. Seriously? I thought. Don’t these Amish let their drivers sleep? Apparently not. I slipped out of bed quietly so I...

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“More Than Just a Store”: Michigan Amish Grocery Burns To The Ground

Erik Wesner — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:26:44 +0000

An Amish-owned grocery store in Newaygo County, Michigan burned to the ground overnight — destroyed in a fire that broke out around midnight Thursday. This is From WOOD TV8: GARFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — An Amish-owned grocery store west of Newaygo burned to the ground overnight. The fire broke out around midnight Thursday at Brookside Discount Grocery on 72nd Street near Croswell Avenue in Garfield...

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Ohio Has Over 86,000 Amish — These Are the State’s 10 Biggest Communities

Erik Wesner — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:43:01 +0000

Ohio is home to America’s second-largest Amish population, with over 86,000 Amish living across the state. These ten communities rank as the biggest in Ohio, based on the most current Amish population estimates. Population numbers via Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (source link at bottom). 1. Holmes County Area Holmes County Area (Holmes, Wayne, Coshocton, Tuscarawas, Stark Counties) Community founded:...

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Michigan Woman Gets 6 Years in Prison for DUI Crash That Killed 8-Year-Old Amish Girl

Erik Wesner — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:07:33 +0000

In March of last year, eight-year-old Alma Yoder was thrown from the buggy she was riding in, after it was rear-ended about a mile from her Van Buren County, Michigan home. Alma suffered severe injuries, and later died at hospital. Her 12-year-old brother Joey was critically injured but survived. The driver of the vehicle which hit the buggy, 31-year-old Sheila Kershner, was intoxicated at the...

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1-800-CHATGPT: How Some Amish Are Using A.I.

Erik Wesner — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:30:03 +0000

An Amish man named Lewis Wengerd needed to research an excavating machine. He didn’t have computer access at the time. His church bans smartphones. So he picked up his flip phone and dialed 1-800-CHATGPT. That’s not the only way the Amish are using AI — but it might be the most memorable. I had never known Chat GPT has an actual number you can call...

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