Some armed with hammers, others with nail guns, Amish men swarmed over the wood frame of what will soon be John Esch’s new dairy barn on Monday, July 14th. Esch lost his old barn, at 3470 W. Newport ...

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 ...

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ARTHUR, Ill. — The sight of a barn going up in the heart of Amish country in Douglas County is an exciting step for the future of the Illinois Amish Heritage Center. But the recent raising of the ...

Above is an example of an Amish community on the East Coast showcasing a traditional barn raising, like the one that will take place in rural Arthur in October. Our Communities Editor Above is an ...

A group of three men hammered spouting onto the frame of a barn under construction at Donald L. Lomax’s 82-acre cattle farm on Calvary Road near Churchville. At the other end of the structure, another ...

An aerial view shows the scope of the effort to relocate a nearly 150-year-old barn from a Douglas County farm to the Illinois Amish Heritage Center campus in the heart of Amish country, between ...

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 ...

The spirit and practice of barn raising will return to Geneseo, Ill., Aug. 12–22 when Trillium Dell Timberworks, in conjunction with the Timber Framers Guild, will host a community event to raise a ...

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 ...