When most people think of Amish communities, they picture old-fashioned environments free of modern technology. For the most part, that's true, but there are a few surprising exceptions. Many Amish ...

About the store The Amish Home at 258 Pittsburgh Mills Circle is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and is closed Sundays. For ...

The WSJ published a story Friday about consumers hiring Amish contractors and subcontractors to build homes for folks who are not part of the strict conservative Christian sect. The lure being the ...

The Amish have long been famous for barn raisings. Now, they're becoming known for building houses for the non-Amish, often using ancient construction techniques. About 600 Amish contractors or ...

Amish barns and solar panels are probably not two things most people think of as going together, but times are changing.

Amish craftsmen, who provide furniture to Amish Furniture Outlet in Grand Island, are visiting the store today and tomorrow. "We stopped at stores all the way down here," Freeman Miller, an Amish ...

In an age when businessmen fill buy-and-sell orders from the touch-screens of their cell phones, Kimberley and Steve Murphy's shop is so 1990s. To fill their store with inventory, they are dependent ...

With their austere clothing and stubborn rejection of modernity, the idea that the Amish could be living in luxury may once have seemed impossible. But an increasing number of high-end properties have ...

What does your business do? “We design and build custom furniture with input from the customers, how they want things to be,” Zerm said. How does that work? “What we have on the floor is basically a ...

The Amish are a curiosity in the modern world. Whereas most people use if not rely on technology for their daily lives, the Amish keep their use of technology to a minimum and do just fine without it.