Dating apps are commonplace in the United States, but the Amish stay offline. Two DW reporters traveled to Pennsylvania to discover how younger Amish people date. The landscape is shaped by vast ...
Naomi Swartzentruber escaped her Amish community at age 17 after rebelling against the lifestyle's restrictive values throughout her teen years. Two years later, she started dancing in strip clubs ...
For nearly a decade, with the smells of fresh manure and homemade shoofly pie in their nostrils, GOP operatives have worked diligently to register an under-courted voting bloc — the Amish.
Swartzentruber was a teenager when she started to rebel against the traditionalist Amish lifestyle upheld by her parents, seven brothers, four sisters and the rest of their community. She and her ...
She and her mother took their horse and buggy to make an uncommon trip seven miles away from their rural Amish community in Iowa. “We went to town to get feed for the horses and stuff at the ...