On a sunny 75-degree Tuesday in February, Clara Yoder, her adult daughter and the daughter’s four fidgety pre-teens sit together on white-plank benches in front of Big Olaf Creamery in Sarasota, ...

Daughter Gloria is super busy getting ready for a wedding held in their shop next week. And now, dear little Joshua (1+ years old) is sick, so she has her hands full. It's a blessing how people come ...

From December through April, Amish travelers pack charter buses making overnight runs from Ohio to Florida. Stiff black hats are gingerly stowed in overhead bins as the bus winds its way through hilly ...

For many people, Christmas serves as a joyous celebration of the previous year, a holiday season roaring in on the heels of lazy Thanksgiving to cap another 12 months of lives lived, birthdays marked, ...

Imagine having Thanksgiving dinner every day of the year—hearty, nourishing food that assures you that life is safe, nurturing and rooted in generations of family memories. Right in the heart of ...

They're called snowbirds – northerners who fly south for the winter. But on the outskirts of Sarasota, Fla., in a little community called Pinecraft, they're called Amish snowbirds. More than 1,000 – ...

John Miller wears braces on his legs and relies on his three-wheel bicycle to maneuver around Pinecraft, the Amish and Mennonite community of Sarasota. A while back his bicycle was stolen, but since ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Some trolley tours down the historic streets of Sarasota are aimed at highlighting the Pinecraft Amish Community, a spot where Amish and Mennonites come to vacation every year. While ...

SARASOTA – To be sure, no one in Mayberry was ever crushed to death beneath two falling bales of hay, nor were any of its characters killed on the way to Florida “when they collided with a truck with ...

Editor's Note: Dorcas Raber, mother of Amish Cook columnist Gloria Yoder, is filling in this week. Daughter Gloria is super busy getting ready for a wedding held in their shop next week. And now, dear ...