Amish from Douglas County find warmth in Florida

They're called snowbirds – northerners who fly south for the winter. But on the outskirts of Sarasota, Fla., in a little community called Pinecraft, they're called Amish snowbirds. More than 1,000 – maybe as many as 2,000 to 3,000 – Amish and their close-religious kin, the Mennonites, escape the dangerous ice and snow to bask in the 70-degree temperatures in rented bungalows along palm-lined streets.

Scores of them are from Arthur, but there are no horses and buggies here.

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