In early March, I looked out my window, watching the birds at my feeder, and in the distance, I saw three Amish neighbor boys driving a pony and cart down the road toward their one-room school house.

Programs such as annual safety days in Ohio counties touted as ways to make connections within those communities.

A conversation with one of her Amish neighbors near Kalona left Mary Swander feeling uneasy. It was March 13, five days after Iowa announced its first COVID-19 patient, and the elderly man Swander was ...