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Like other Old Order Amish, the Nebraska Amish do not use motorized equipment or indoor plumbing. Other differences include the fact that they do not place screens on their doors or windows, men only wear white shirts, curtains are not used in homes, buggy tops must be white, men's hair must be shoulder length, no lawn mowers are allowed and ...
The Amish Mennonite Church, O'Neill, sometimes called the Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite Church, was built in 1888 in Holt County, Nebraska by a group of Anabaptist settlers. The deeply religious settlers from Germany fled military conscription and were attracted to the opportunity of the Nebraska plains.
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80% ...
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Here’s a guide to those events and to a few others happening at other venues in Wichita, including the annual Woofstock dog party at Sedgwick County Park. Holiday Galleria Friday-Sunday, Century ...
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Wichita Sports Forum, 2688 N. Greenwich. Holiday shoppers also can get their gift hunting underway this weekend at the Wichita Flea Market.
The Swartzentruber Amish are an Old Order Amish group that is about as conservative as the Nebraska Amish but much more numerous and therefore much better known. They formed as the result of a division that occurred among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio , in 1917.
Festive ICT, the people responsible for the Wichita Taco Fest, is one of the organizers of a new event called Nomar Eatz, which will happen from 5 to 10 p.m. tonight at Nomar Plaza, 21st and ...