ARTHUR — The “English,” or non-Amish, in Arthur and the surrounding communities may have access to high-tech smartphones that provide nearly every means of communication possible, but their Amish ...

ARTHUR, Ill. (AP) — The “English,” or non-Amish, in Arthur and the surrounding communities may have access to high-tech smartphones that provide nearly every means of communication possible, but their ...

ARTHUR — A cheese-carving contest will join the traditional cheese giveaways and other competitions at this year’s Arthur Amish Country Cheese Festival. The carving contest is a new event for the ...

ARTHUR, Ill. (WCIA) — The Illinois Amish Heritage Center is getting ready for an expansion. The center — located east of Arthur and west of Arcola, just off the I-57 exit — announced the ...

Not far from St. Louis, in and around Arthur, Illinois, is the largest concentration of Amish people in Illinois and the fourth-largest community of Old Order Amish ...

ARTHUR — Peter Bysko has a workshop at home in Springfield, but his tools are all power tools. “I have hand tools,” he said with a chuckle, “but they're just for display.” He and his wife, Michele, ...

The Grabers are among the 4,500 Amish who live in and around Arthur, Ill., the largest Amish community in Illinois and the fourth-largest in the United States. They shun automobiles, electricity and ...

ARTHUR, Ill. (AP) - Visitors to Arthur perhaps aren't used to seeing an Amish horse and buggy rig at a coffee shop's drive-through window. It's common for Arthur residents, however. Horses and buggies ...

Participants wait for the start of an Amish Country Tractor Cruise in Arthur. Participants wait for the start of a previous Amish Country Tractor Cruise in Arthur. The event — weather permitting — ...

Larry Schlabach stands in front of a fireball, one of the pyrotechnic displays he’s perfected over the years for Arthur’s massive annual fireworks display. Next to him is his largest fireball cannon, ...

ARTHUR, Ill. -- Amish buggies ramble up and down the road that winds around Reuben Schrock's farm, the horses tearing tiny chunks out of the oil-and-chip surface with their studded horseshoes. He can ...