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, ...

Cookbook author Sherry Gore and the Pinecraft Amish-Mennonite community will be in the national spotlight thanks to an upcoming Today show segment. Sherry—who recently signed a three-book deal with ...

What happens in Pinecraft, stays in Pinecraft. It’s not quite Las Vegas, but this community in Sarasota, Fla., is an Amish snowbird haven — an “Amish Paradise.” Traditional dress is still sometimes ...

The sun was only just up, the morning rush hour barely begun, but inside Yoder’s Restaurant, the energy level was already at an eleven. Friendly servers in print aprons balanced generous portions of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...