Brotherhood and kinsmanship came together for an Amish barn raising on a 60 degree day in Northampton Township this month. Why has Somerset County switched to a new 911 system? Here's what we know.

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 ...

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When it comes to demonstrating American craftsmanship, nothing says it better than an Amish barn-raising. After nine weeks of old-school construction aided by modern power saws and drills, a crew of ...

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 ...

Schrock had to pre-order his lumber and steel, which were both bought from businesses outside of the community. At one time the Amish cut their own lumber for a barn raising, but have since ...

Amish builders were hard at work on the roof of a new barn in chilly weather Monday afternoon on Marion Avenue Road North in Richland County. They won't be leaving their jackets at home any day soon, ...

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 ...

The Amish: Barn Raising Day examines how Amish manage to raise a barn in a single day. Both post and beam construction, the traditional barn construction method, and the more modern stick-built ...