By Kevin Williams Time to check in with some of our favorite blog partners and friends. SEA CAPTAIN: For starters let’s do something non-Amish. Cheryl McNulty has a painting of an old, grizzled sea captain. I do love this portrait, it... Read more

By Kevin Williams It’s impossible to distill Lancaster County, Pennsylvania into a single post.  It’s a place full of 21st century fun that lives alongside farms scarcely changed for 200 years.  You have buggies clip-clopping on the... Read more

PEACH JALAPENO JAM:  This is so intriguing.  Peach-jalapeno?  What would you serve this on?  These products are wonderful because the Amish Buggy brand is actually made and packed by an Amish family in Arthur, Illinois.  They make all sorts of a... Read more

By Kevin Williams We have a definite food theme to the news this week.  But that’s okay, that means it’s quiet in Amish country and that is generally the way they like it. MILLIE OTTO:  Check in with Illinois Amish columnist Millie O... Read more

By Kevin Williams Wow, Ronks, Pennsylvania is the epicenter of Amish-themed tourism.  It had been years since I had been to Ronks and it has changed.  Big box stores, outlet malls, and upscale hotels give this area around the Dutch Wonderland th... Read more

By Gloria Yoder Editor’s Note:  Gloria’s family has been battling winter illnesses. Lots of sniffles and sneezes in the  Yoder household, so we wish them all a speedy recovery.  I told her to take a week to rest. I am glad she took m... Read more

By Kevin Williams There is something soul-stirring about a train ride.  You get to see people and places from angles unseen from the clinical confines of a car.  The railroad is the road less traveled, a journey into inner-America where the hear... Read more