Amish from Douglas County find warmth in Florida
By Rebecca Mabry
Sunday March 11, 2007
Rebecca Mabry
The folks who winter in Pinecraft, Fla., visit all day along the streets, in the parks, in the restaurants and in their rented bungalows.
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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