Shoofly pie, with its molasses-based filling and crumb topping, offers a taste of Pennsylvania Dutch history for the price of a fancy coffee in most urban areas. Fresh-baked bread, still warm when you ...

See what's going on in Millie Otto's world in this week's "My Amish Home" column.

For many suburban American homeowners, there comes a moment when the single garage and a small garden shed simply do not cope with the family’s cars, sports gear, tools and hobbies anymore. At the ...

When a sheltered Amish teenager leaves her insular community to attend a modern public high school, she must navigate the ...

Pennsylvania, with its rich history and diverse culture, is a magnet for tourists. But not all attractions are worth your ...

For this column I’m going to share some excerpts from my mother Elizabeth Coblentz’s columns from November 1994. At the time, Joe and I lived in a house trailer across the driveway from Dad and Mom, ...

“Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the ...

Imagine a place where the morning alarm is a rooster’s crow instead of your smartphone, where traffic jams involve horses and buggies waiting patiently at crossroads, and where the most stressful ...

I moved along the garden row, pulling weeds as I did so. I noticed one marigold plant in the row along the edge of the garden that was not aligned with the others. Every time I saw it, it bugged me, ...