Now a viral TikTok creator, Lovina Hershberger tells PEOPLE she didn't touch a phone until she left her rigid, restrictive ...

Leaving behind your Amish community may not involve escaping from a cornfield maze, but it's a journey full of twists and ...

Hershberger tells PEOPLE exclusively. She and her mother took their horse and buggy to make an uncommon trip seven miles away from their rural Amish community in Iowa. “We went to town to get ...

In her experience, ex-Amish people are generous buoys to one another, particularly while they're first getting their footing beyond the rigid lifestyle. "They all know what you went through.

Martha Ross, who now makes TikTok videos about the Amish experience, says she doesn't miss anything about the lifestyle — except her family Zoey Lyttle is an Editorial Assistant at PEOPLE.

The state’s famed “Pennsylvania Dutch” registered to vote in “unprecedented numbers” in response to a January federal raid on ...

Amish people end formal education at the eighth grade ... The vast majority of teens in Rumspringa do not leave for urban life but live at home. Prime activities include dating, socializing ...