Across rural America, a quiet transportation shift is unfolding on gravel roads long dominated by horses and black buggies.

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 ...

With their austere clothing and stubborn rejection of modernity, the idea that the Amish could be living in luxury may once have seemed impossible. But an increasing number of high-end properties have ...

What does your business do? “We design and build custom furniture with input from the customers, how they want things to be,” Zerm said. How does that work? “What we have on the floor is basically a ...

In an age when businessmen fill buy-and-sell orders from the touch-screens of their cell phones, Kimberley and Steve Murphy's shop is so 1990s. To fill their store with inventory, they are dependent ...

When life feels too complicated, I can regain a sense of balance by driving to farmland where Amish families intentionally live quietly, simply and conservatively. Add “mysteriously,” if you’ve had ...