PennSpring Capital LLC has acquired playground equipment maker Swing Kingdom and rotational molder Atlas Molding LLC, both founded by Amish businessman Amos Glick.

Amish craftsmen manipulate both ancient and modern machinery, using steam and chemical reactions to bend hickory into buggy wheels. It's a time-honored craft, building the wheel.

They remembered the old, rotting wooden playground equipment. So when a visiting reporter asked a group of Tynes Elementary School students to play on the brand-new multicolored equipment for a pho… ...