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Forget about those so called "reality" TV shows! Learn how the Amish run successful home based businesses without modern technology! Enjoy

meals in Amish homes, cooking demos, house tours, make and take items, visits to Amish farms, furniture companies, and craft shops.

Amish Basket Making Demo Performed by one of the most strict groups of Amish. Have yours signed by one of the children!

Make Whoopie Pies at an Amish Family Home Following lunch or dinner learn more about how the Amish ladies do their chores without electricity and what the Amish children like to do for family gatherings and entertainment since they don't have computers or TV.

A visit to Behalt (meaning to “keep or re-

member”), the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center for the mural tour. This will introduce your guests to the Amish / Mennonite heritage. The 10’ x 265’ foot cyclorama illustrates the history of the Amish and Mennonite people from their early Anabaptist beginnings in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1525, to the present day. Very unique and educational, this beautifully artistic exhibit will leave you with a deep understanding of these peaceful people.

A visit to an Amish Home for an

Amish Wedding Feast. September is one of the busiest months for Amish weddings. Amish women prepare all foods for the local weddings! Dinner is included at an Amish Home for an Amish Wedding Feast. Tonight guests will experience an Amish Wedding Feast where the room will be set just like a wedding has just taken place.

Homestead Furniture A 27,000 sq. ft. showroom—thousands of furniture pieces which are just a sample of what they offer. Tour a 40,000 square-foot manufacturing facility where you can see Amish craftsmen building custom furniture right in front of you. Relax in the Garden, see all the trees from which they build American hardwood furniture.

Amish Church Lunch at Event Center. Guests will enjoy a traditional Amish Church lunch that would be served after Sunday Services in a typical Amish house. The lunch will be served in the New Homestead Furniture Event Center. Lunch menu could include: cold cuts, homemade bread, pickles, Amish peanut whip or schmeir (peanut butter and maple syrup), and more with assorted desserts.

Roll up your sleeves and enjoy making your own buckeye candy with one of the top AMISH candy makers. Guests will roll and dip their buckeye candy and will have a delicious treat af-terwards (everyone will re-ceive ½ doz). PLUS there are many other delicious treats that you can purchase (cashew crunch is always a favorite).

Walnut Creek Brooms for demo with Ada Miller. Guests will observe the process of mak-ing a broom and the hours it takes to make the many sizes of brooms and their passion for creating durable high-quality products one at a time.

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Lehman's General Store & Old Fashioned Hardware Founded in 1955 you can browse and shop where the Amish shop...from unique oil lamps, cookware, butter churns, hand tools, collectibles, carving tools, hand pumps, and so much more. Guests will marvel at one of North America’s treasures. See why people from dozens of countries come to Lehman’s.

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Make your own Muffin Candles at Light For My Path Candles. Mary Troyer, is Amish and the owner of the business. In addition to can-dles, Troyer stocks gift items and consignments. She special-izes in custom candles and container refills. Guests will learn how to make a muffin candle…. this delightful muf-fin candle looks good enough to eat. Keep this treasure for yourself or as a gift, and you will feel good know-ing that you created it !!

NO CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

Wendell August Forge - America’s oldest and largest forge, where hand-wrought, functional

art is created to shape your life’s special moments. Guests will enjoy a work-shop tour and will create their own work of metal art with assistance from the masters. Have your picture

taken in front of the world’s largest buggy!

Millers Dry Goods and Quilts in Charm, where the Amish ladies shop for their supplies. Start-ing as a quilt shop in 1965 in the family’s kitchen, the retail store has grown over the years. It now fills two buildings offering over 8,000 bolts of fabric, sewing notions and patterns.

The quality, hand-made quilts continue to be a staple at Mil-ler’s Dry Goods. Quilts are on display and for sale in a variety of sizes,

patterns and colors. Also large selections of quilted pillows, wall hangings and potholders. In addition to the many accessories, you’ll find clothing, gift items, cal-endars, yo-yo makers and flower makers amongst the wide selection of items throughout the store.

Guests will be served an authentic Amish meal at the Country Courtyard and be entertained by members of the Amish Country Theater cast Award-Winning Live theater in Ohio’s Amish Country! Hold on to your seats and get ready for some explo-sive laughter! Voted a Top 100 Event in North America by the American Bus Association, and performed in a state-of-the art 600-seat auditorium! You’ll meet acclaimed Ventriloquist Ken Groves,

world known with 14 national television appearances. You’ll laugh with comedian Lynyrd, a spotlight stealin’ country bump-kin. See the famous Amish com-edy trio “The Beachy’s” and Fannie Mae, whose parody songs and jokes about farm liv-ing will keep you laughing the entire time.

Hershberger Truck Patch and Amish Bakery will fill the senses with the aroma of the best fresh baked pastries in the county! Amazing selections of baked goods: fry pies, ap-ple fritters, muffins. View fresh, colorful produce, homemade bread, kettle corn. Then there’s the farm store, featuring USA made wooden toys, tack, bird seed, leather goods and more. This Holmes County favorite is sure to please with its wide variety of merchandise.

Yoders Amish Farm and home tour Local, knowledgeable guides take you on a 30-40 minute tour through both homes on the property and the barn. Your guide will explain a great deal about the history and lifestyle of the Amish people. Guests will enjoy a buggy ride, visit the old school house, tour of the home and barn.

Warther Carvings & Warther button house and knife shop Ernest “Mooney” Warther, known for his ivory and ebony carvings of steam engines, appraised by the Smithsonian as “Priceless Works of Art”. On this guided tour, guests will see these carvings - from entire trains to a hand carved steel mill. Visit Frieda Warther’s Swiss Garden and Button house, the origi-nal Family Home, and one of the areas finest gift shops. Frieda, turned her garden over to Swiss-

styled flowering plant beds. Some of her original plants, remain on site today. She held wreath making , flower arranging, and jewelry mak-ing classes. Frieda founded the Do-ver Garden Club. In her own right, she became a unrequited legend and an accomplished button artist!

Heini’s Cheese Chalet – Visit the Heini’s Cheese Chalet Factory and Retail Outlet and enjoy free samples of over 80 varieties of locally made cheeses at Heini’s Cheese Chalet including their sig-nature yogurt cheeses made with only local Amish farm milk. Enjoy homemade fudge and other treats! Each guest will receive a chunk of cheese and a loaf of bread!!