In early March, I looked out my window, watching the birds at my feeder, and in the distance, I saw three Amish neighbor boys driving a pony and cart down the road toward their one-room school house.

Iowa Writers 'Collaborative. Linking Iowa readers and writers. Buggyland will never be Buggyland again. The New Order Amish bishop has lifted the ban on bicycles and a wave of motion has washed over ...

DELHI - Efforts to induce Amish in Ohio and Pennsylvania to vote for Donald Trump will not be successful in Iowa. 'We don't vote,” said Amos Christner, 67, a minister and deacon in the new and rapidly ...

KALONA, Iowa — A white van, its sides covered with the words Kalona By-Ways Tours, sits parked in front of an Amish country store, a steady stream of plainly dressed men and women coming and going. “I ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – An Amish cheese plant in northeast Iowa has halted operations amid production problems and member complaints that the plant was using electricity and other modern technology to make ...

ANDREW, Iowa -- Homes in Jackson County are starting to look different as the Amish move away. Where buggies once dotted the front yards, farm trucks now line the driveways. And, electricity has been ...

There's a solid brick barn on Victor Yoder's property near Kalona that has seen many uses over the years, he said. It started life as an Amish homestead barn built by Joe Gingerich in 1931 and served ...

DES MOINES – A conversation with one of her Amish neighbors left Mary Swander feeling uneasy. It was March 13, five days after Iowa announced its first coronavirus patient, and the man Swander was ...

The man who answered the door at a farm house west of Bloomfield one afternoon in the early 1970s was an imposing figure, even without that thick beard on his chin. Gideon Yutzy was a member of the ...

A conversation with one of her Amish neighbors near Kalona left Mary Swander feeling uneasy. It was March 13, five days after Iowa announced its first COVID-19 patient, and the elderly man Swander was ...