This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Remillard, 49, and his wife Jennifer Remillard, 55, who left the Chicago suburbs to retire on a Maine homestead. They built their dream ...

About the store The Amish Home at 258 Pittsburgh Mills Circle is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and is closed Sundays.

Hundreds of Amish and their neighbors are already repairing and reconstructing homes, a church, schools and farm buildings in the quarter-mile-wide path of destruction in the White Horse area.