Gertrude Enders Huntington, a prominent writer about the Anabaptist societies, will be speaking next Thursday afternoon in State College, Pennsylvania, as part of the community’s monthly First Thursday celebration. Her talk will be titled “My Amish Education: From Yale to Hired Girl to Grandmother.” Huntington received her PhD from Yale… Continue reading…
The Schwartzentruber Amish in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, went back to court to seek relief from the harsh penalties imposed by county judge Norman Krumenacker earlier this year. On the judge’s orders, an Amish school was padlocked in March by county sheriffs because the outhouses near the school did not meet… Continue reading…
An Amish newspaper, The Budget, proposed moving its content onto the Internet but subscribers responded angrily to the suggestion. According to an AP story last week, local Ohio news where the paper is published (Sugarcreek, in Eastern Ohio) is already made available digitally, but the rest of the newspaper, a… Continue reading…
The seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that an Indiana police officer used excessive force when he pointed a submachine gun at some Amish men, and others, during a routine search. The court upheld a district court decision that the officer is not entitled to qualified immunity in… Continue reading…
Despite the economic downturn that is hurting the publishing industry, novels classified as Amish fiction—family sagas and romances set in Old Order communities—are doing very well. Publishers and authors, gathered at the annual Christian Retail show in Denver last week, discussed the variations and successes in the Amish lit genre…. Continue reading…
Performances of The Amish Project, a one-woman, off-Broadway play, which opened to favorable reviews several weeks ago, are going to be extended two weeks beyond the original closing date. Written by and starring Jessica Dickey, the play features portrayals of fictional Amish characters involved in a mass murder of school… Continue reading…
Andy Schwartzentruber was released from the Cambria County, Pennsylvania, jail last week after completing his 90 day sentence for refusing to bring his outhouses into compliance with the orders of a judge. The Amish man feels that state and county regulations specifying construction and cleaning details of outhouses violate his… Continue reading…
An Off Broadway play about the tragic Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in October 2006 opened last Wednesday at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York City. Sarah Cameron Sunde directs the production, The Amish Project, which was written and solo acted by Jessica Dickey. It is a fictionalized presentation of… Continue reading…
Judge Norman A. Krumenacker in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, who sent an Amish man to jail in March, last week ordered two other Amish families to be evicted from their homes. At a court hearing on Friday, he gave the two families the weekend to remove their belongings from their buildings…. Continue reading…
A district judge in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, sent a conservative Amish man to jail for refusing to compromise with officials over the outhouses he provides at a school on his property. Judge Norman Krumenacker last week found Andy Schwartzentruber in contempt of court for failing to bring the outhouses into… Continue reading…
