Tag: Amish

Two Amish girls from New York have recently been abducted and returned, once again bringing attention to America's "Plain People," whose reliance on technology and seemingly simple lives have long fascinated outsiders. A sketch artist was required to create the police's image of one of the girls in the New York case because the sect forbade the taking of photographs. Take a look at these 10 fascinating facts about the Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of Americans. History America has been home to the Amish for centuries. To escape religious persecution in Europe and find farm land, they first arrived in the early 18th century. It originated from a schism between the Anabaptist church and the followers of Swiss minister Jakob Amman, who argued that members should "remember Jesus and His ap...