Associated Press. ANDREW, Iowa -- Homes in Jackson County are starting to look different as the Amish move away. Where buggies once dotted the front yards, farm trucks now line the driveways.

We've now moved to Idaho, where I'll be an EMT for the firefighters working the huge wildfires there. Life on the grid We still identify as Amish, but now we're connected to the grid system.

For starters, of the 98 Amish pedometer-wearing adults surveyed over a week, men averaged about 18,000 steps a day, women about 14,000. Most Americans do not come anywhere close to that ...

But it was a revelation in her own life at the time of the massacre that most moved Beiler. She was 65 at the time. “I was starting to realize the importance of forgiveness,” she said.

A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away from strict Amish rules ... he is continually moved by their strength of spirit, ...

The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away ...

There are settlements of Amish all around the nation but a large number live in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Amish are a group of plain people who are similar to but different than the Mennonite.

Six families in the fledgling Amish community, which had grown to 14 families, have moved to Montana. Nearly seven years ago, Albert and Edna Keim bought a farm between Andrew and Bellevue.