The language spoken by the Amish is Pennsylvania Dutch, a mix of German and English. Because of our language similarities, it is easy to start conversations as we visit Amish farms and quilt shops.

A young woman has told how she has fled the Amish community and had her haircut ... Alisha, a delivery driver, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said: “It got to the point where I was either going ...

They travel through their towns in horse ... "But there are another 250,000 Pennsylvania residents who depend on the Amish ...

While Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is home to the oldest Amish communities in the U.S ... about the best ways to fill your days when you visit Lancaster. Bird-in-Hand is a quaint village that ...

and you might know a thing or two about Pennsylvania Amish Country. But did you know you can see Albert Einstein's brain on display in Philadelphia, or that you can visit an International Dark Sky ...

Kraybill is a Senior Fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania ... a non-Amish driver for long distance and business travel.

These images, taken in Lancaster, PA between 2004 and 2010, show contemporary Amish men, women and children. While the Amish generally do not pose for pictures, some will cooperate with ...