A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable farming community in the nation.
When local historian Marion Wallace Reninger composed a booklet of “Famous Women of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’’ in 1961, she included Ann Wood Henry.
An Amish friend who attended the old Bart Township School at Green Tree embedded the concrete letters of the school’s name in a brick wall on his property after the school was demolished in 2015. Now he wonders about the history of the school.
One of the great rewards of writing this column is absorbing the cascade of surprising information that washes through the internet to the Scribbler’s desk each week.
Is Lancaster County’s Amish population still increasing rapidly or, because of development pressure, beginning to level off as families move to greener pastures?
About a month ago, a New York writer revealed that what he believes to be the first reference to the “underground railroad” appeared in an abolitionist newspaper published in Albany, New York, in 1842.
Do you remember the weather two weekends ago — how it rained almost constantly, and heavily, until it felt almost as if it was raining inside your head?