To the outsider, the Amish way of life is intriguing and sometimes puzzling. Amish customs can seem contradictory. Although the Amish chief mode of transportation is horse and buggy, sometimes they ...

It was only a year ago when Esther Schmucker was living a "normal" life in a quiet sect of Lancaster County. A mega-hit television series changed all that, virtually overnight. "I still feel like a ...

The English language does not have words equal to the task of describing the intense grief a parent feels when a child dies. To capture that emotion, some of the Amish families who lost five children ...

It has been a long three months for Alan Beiler, star of Discovery Channel's series "Amish Mafia." Beiler spent August-November in the Perry County Prison after a high speed police chase. He was a ...

In 1989, WGAL's Dick Hoxworth interviewed author Donald Kraybill, who had just written a new book, "The Riddle of Amish Culture." Sign up for our Newsletters Kraybill, who was a sociology professor at ...