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The fertile backcountry of rural Tennessee offers a vital lifeline to the Amish, a deeply traditional community living apart ...

ARCOLA, Ill. (AP) -- After years of living in Arcola, four men saw a problem. Virtually everyone in central Illinois knew of the strong Amish presence in the area, as did tourists from around the ...

(CNN) — The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Amish communities and other isolated religious colonies are thriving by persuading their children to continue their largely preindustrial ways and remain with their churches, according ...

Most Americans know very little about the realities of growing up Amish, but Johnny Detweiler (@johnnydetweiler4) is trying to change that. The Amish teen, who lives in Smock, Pennsylvania, frequently ...

When Judy Stavisky began trading free car rides to Amish women in exchange for talk time, she wasn’t setting out to write a book or to make lifelong friends. But that’s exactly what happened to the ...

Watch 'Primetime: The Outsiders' and 'Primetime: Crime' Wednesdays this summer! June 19, 2008 — -- From a rare look inside the world of Amish teenagers embarking on a pivotal life-altering ...

The field was covered with Amish, outsiders who had come to bid and those who had come to rub elbows with a society rarely seen so intimately. I would have a busy day trying to capture this mingling ...

The troubling inspired by a true story about an Amish girl who escapes abuse within her community comes to the small screen in An Amish Sin. You can first watch this movie on the Lifetime Channel on ...

Writer Joe Mackall gained unprecedented access to one of the most conservative Amish communities through his neighbor Samuel. In his new book, Plain Secrets, Mackall chronicles the tightly knit ...