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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...