On a sunny 75-degree Tuesday in February, Clara Yoder, her adult daughter and the daughter’s four fidgety pre-teens sit together on white-plank benches in front of Big Olaf Creamery in Sarasota, ...

What happens in Pinecraft, stays in Pinecraft. It’s not quite Las Vegas, but this community in Sarasota, Fla., is an Amish snowbird haven — an “Amish Paradise.” Traditional dress is still sometimes ...

In the coming months, with the arrival of low temperatures and the slowdown of the farming season, thousands of Amish people in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania will pack their bags and head south to a ...

Cookbook author Sherry Gore and the Pinecraft Amish-Mennonite community will be in the national spotlight thanks to an upcoming Today show segment. Sherry—who recently signed a three-book deal with ...

Daughter Gloria is super busy getting ready for a wedding held in their shop next week. And now, dear little Joshua (1+ years old) is sick, so she has her hands full. It's a blessing how people come ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Some trolley tours down the historic streets of Sarasota are aimed at highlighting the Pinecraft Amish Community, a spot where Amish and Mennonites come to vacation every year. While ...

They're called snowbirds – northerners who fly south for the winter. But on the outskirts of Sarasota, Fla., in a little community called Pinecraft, they're called Amish snowbirds. More than 1,000 – ...

From December through April, Amish travelers pack charter buses making overnight runs from Ohio to Florida. Stiff black hats are gingerly stowed in overhead bins as the bus winds its way through hilly ...