MIDDLE TOWNSHIP — Stan Sperlak had a vision of what his barn should look like, and he may have found the one construction company that could deliver it. Sperlak, 51, of Goshen, had heard about Amish ...

MARSHALL, Mich. — Members of the Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance announced Thursday, they are working with the Amish community in Albion and with the Calhoun County Fairgrounds, to ...

David Stoltzfus clambered down the skeletal walls from the roof of the horse barn his family’s construction company is building for Saddle Rowe Horse Farm, passing up the ladder and not once losing ...

MARSHALL — The Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance is working with the local Amish community in Albion and the Calhoun County Fairgrounds to repurpose and preserve barns currently located on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some Lancaster County farmers are rebuilding barns as fast as a suspected arsonist is burning them. At least five barns have been torched throughout the county since November, including one in West ...

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 ...

Construction is not an unusual sight along the Texas Gulf Coast these days, but this week on Bolivar Peninsula, residents have been seeing something a little different at one site. Bearded men in ...

The Amish community comes together for a variety of reasons, but none of them provide such a picture perfect opportunity like an old-fashioned barn raising. By the end of the day on Wednesday, Aug. 29 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. MASON CITY — A "monument to agriculture,” in danger of falling apart and disappearing forever, is being ...

LaRue- "Are you coming to the barn raising?" The question from a neighbor sparked the idea of a time-lapse video for Pleasant Elementary School sixth-grade math teacher Scott Miller, who had ...