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 ...

On Thursday evening members of the Murray community gathered for a candlelight vigil honoring 16-year-old Elmer Borntragger ...

Eldridge, Iowa –The Scott County Library will host a presentation on the Amish Communities of Iowa on January 12th at 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend this free educational event. The Amish are ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILO — The stand is set up, the fry pies have been put out and now, shortly after 7 a.m. on RAGBRAI’s Day 4, Katie Gingrich has a question. “How hot is it supposed to be?” she asks, an important ...

KALONA — Vernon Yoder and his wife, Inus, tended to their own tasks on a recent afternoon, Inus quilting while he wrote letters. It was starting to get dark in the house with no electric lights to ...

While scrolling through the private Facebook group "I grew up in Iowa", I came across amazing images of Amish society captured by photographer David Marvitz. Over the years, the 78-year-old Waterloo, ...

McINTIRE — News that five Amish girls had been shot to death and five critically wounded on Monday in a Nickel Mines, Pa., school spread quickly through North Iowa’s Old Order Amish community. “It was ...

COLWELL, Iowa — Six people were injured Tuesday when an Amish buggy was struck by a pickup truck in northeastern Iowa, authorities said. According to the Iowa State Patrol, Jim Whitmarsh, 66, of ...

FLOYD COUNTY, Iowa (WHO13) — Six people were injured, four of them children, when a pickup truck struck the back of an Amish buggy in northeast Iowa Tuesday. It happened around 3:40 p.m. in the 3100 ...

DES MOINES (AP) — Members of Iowa’s Amish community were reacting with disbelief this week to the deadly shootings at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. “It was a shock to us all,” said David ...