Episode 4 review and episode 5 preview.
We seen me go to Pa to help in something I hadn’t done in about 10 yrs. Help build an Amish barn. There is a special history to the old Stolzfus barn and residence. It was one of the very original places settled upon when the Amish first came to America in the late 1600′s and early 1700′s. The person who settled upon it, Nicholas Stolzfus, had been kicked out of his Amish community (overseas somewhere) because he fell in love and married an English girl. He settled in Pa, and that’s where the first Pa Amish community began. Today, there are more

Joplin, Mo. May 2011
Stolzfus in Pa then any other Amish name, and it seems that every person in Pa is related in some way to the Nicholas Stolzfus, the man who married the “English” girl. This is why the Amish decided to rebuild this barn and try to preserve the place, in recognition of Nicholas Stolzfus. I do believe the property is still not completely done because they ran out of funds.
I have always enjoyed building things with my hands! Even back in the “Amish in the City” days back in 2004, when I was staying with the rest of the cast in the Hollywood hills, what helped me keep my sanity was I preoccupied my mind with making little wooden inventions for the rest of the cast in the house. Also later in the episode we see a bunch of us go down to Joplin, Mo to help with Read more »



