Most people don’t get worked up over man-made structures designed to house tractors, lawn mowers and other tools. But the 26-by-44-foot stick-frame shed that Groftdale Barns’ Moses Riehl built left ...
MARSHALL, Mich. — Members of the Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance announced Thursday, they are working with the Amish community in Albion and with the Calhoun County Fairgrounds, to ...
David Stoltzfus clambered down the skeletal walls from the roof of the horse barn his family’s construction company is building for Saddle Rowe Horse Farm, passing up the ladder and not once losing ...
In 18 th - and 19 th-century rural North America, barn-raising was a thing. But these days the Amish are among the last communities to carry on this mostly forgotten tradition in which neighbors ...
BEAUMONT, Texas — Construction is not an unusual sight along the Texas Gulf Coast these days, but recently on Bolivar Peninsula, residents were seeing something a little different at one site. Bearded ...
-- Don and Sandy Cole have transformed an antique Amish horse barn into a comfortable home on Lake Templene, southeast of Centreville. They bought the barn, with its whitewashed oak and ash timbers, ...
The Amish have long been famous for barn raisings. Now, they're becoming known for building houses for the non-Amish, often using ancient construction techniques. About 600 Amish contractors or ...
Some Lancaster County farmers are rebuilding barns as fast as a suspected arsonist is burning them. At least five barns have been torched throughout the county since November, including one in West ...
Construction is not an unusual sight along the Texas Gulf Coast these days, but this week on Bolivar Peninsula, residents have been seeing something a little different at one site. Bearded men in ...
LaRue- "Are you coming to the barn raising?" The question from a neighbor sparked the idea of a time-lapse video for Pleasant Elementary School sixth-grade math teacher Scott Miller, who had ...
The Amish community comes together for a variety of reasons, but none of them provide such a picture perfect opportunity like an old-fashioned barn raising. By the end of the day on Wednesday, Aug. 29 ...
John Ebersole’s workshop, deep in the countryside of Christiana, smells of wood warmed by late-morning winter sunlight. It’s not a large space. Three visitors, plus Ebersole, are enough to make it a ...