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We are not Amish nor have we ever been Amish or Mennonite in any way.
Anytime you go onto a website and look around and find a few things you like, you end up making sure you can trust the website owners. We want to assure the reader of our love and dedication to our websites as the owners and writers of this website. We also star in our own videos from the actual locations around the Ethridge area Amish community. We have expertise in the lives of the Amish people as we know many of them personally. This friendly context and background gives the website visitor our authenticity as people who would easily be called out as liers if they tried to fake their experience. We only type true and legitimate words here so that the visitor can have trust in us to tell them true and trustworthy sentences and if we don't know something, we write it in as something we don't yet know.
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The Amish of Ethridge website is under the umbrella of The Progeny Adventure Group LLC who owns and distributes the content shown in this website. Mike and Josh are the main controlling members of The Progeny Adventure Group LLC and want to show the areas Amish people in a way that would attract visitors to come see them and have fun in Lawrence county and the surrounding area. This should make since being the "progeny" means kids and "adventure" and "group" mean the website companies under the umbrella all have adventure with kids as a central theme!
About our team
Mike Pilkinton
About the author - Michael Pilkinton
Mike is the main owner with a majority share in the company and all of the websites under the Progeny Adventure Group LLC . When his wife Tara had a 1 pound 13 ounce baby daughter Alana that spent 89 days in the NICU, he knew that parenting was a huge task and one not to be taken lightly. His passion turned into questions that led him to find answers from his 24 years of working in engineering to be applied to parenting with a purpose!
Josh Brown
About the author - Josh Brown
Josh is the only son of an Army special forces father who was on a mission to keep Josh in line. He had to miss several fun things with his friends to mow grass or paint for others. He was a janitor who decided he needed to be teaching rather than mopping the floor. So he went to Trevecca University and received a masters in business science. Josh's father died before seeing him walk the stage or see his son David being born and this makes him want to be a great father.
Growing up in Ethridge
So how do we know anything about the Amish in Ethridge? Mike grew up on 109 High Avenue across the street from his grandparents Henry and Louise Pilkinton and nextdoor from his uncle Donald that everyone called "Hopsing". Across from him was his great grandmother Lillian Wright who was a Dickson before she married. Mike would walk with his grandpa Henry to the Amish on Indiana Avenue and toward South Brace where the majority of Amish lived. They were friends with the Amish and Mike grew up around them. Josh would grow up in Lawrenceburg but befriended people in school who lived in the Amish community as English people. The Amish boys would also hang out with them so Josh got to know them as he grew up and out of school.
Henry and Louise Pilkinton Home.
High Avenue was beside a store and the Farmer Co-Op feed store . The Amish buggies would bring a constant clopping of horse hooves on the road that would make us look out to see them.
Mike's dad who was also called Mike but had a different middle name to avoid the senior and junior titles was a feisty youth who would play tricks on the Amish people. Along with his brother Hopsing, they had a race car and would drag race at what is now the Ethridge Motorsports Park just down from where they lived. They have many stories to tell about Ethridge and the mischief they got into. In a way this website was easy to write and explain since the places and features are just like it was years ago. Time doesn't move things along here and the most common response we get from visitors is "It seems like I went back in Time" when they visitors tell us of their journey.
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I had a fan of the page ask me to highlight the Campbellsville Road side of the Amish community. The wagon tours are great for getting people out into the Brewer Road side but after the people get off the wagons they just repeat their Amish tour and never go out with their map. Try going out Dooley, Campbellsville, East Edan, Marcella Falls, and the roads that split off from them. There are a lot of Amish who live in this section that have plenty of things. Just past Top Gun Arms on Liberty Loop is one of my favorite plant greenhouses where they also make cedar chest. Just go out and look while out on your Amish Adventure! #amishmennonitetn
So what is the Miller Church. I go into this topic in my course but you may see two separate groups mentioned in the Ethridge community. The Swartzentruber and the Miller. The Miller Church arose out of a split in the 1990's with other bishops in Ohio where they continued with a bishop in 1998 up to today. They are still a type of Swartzentruber but a division of their own. The surrounding Swartzentruber does not acknowledge them as Amish for worship but this is normal for Swartzentruber Amish . They still have all the things you will see with a bit more technology. The men can have shorter beards and more closer working conditions with the English. The Area around the outer edge of Lawrenceburg is where you mainly see them. What I said here is extremely simplistic and the nuance will need more words to say so if you are ex-Amish or Mennonite who knows how to put the Miller Church into words then please tell us below. I have never been Amish or Mennonite so I believe we English should visit them all. #amishmennonitetn
I had a fan of my other pages tell me the true Amish would never buy anything from a store and how they make everything they need. This is a myth or legend that unfortunately some believe. While the Amish do try to make what they can, they rely on the English world around them to supply what they cannot do. The Swartzentruber Amish have the least technology of all the Amish affiliations and separate the most from the world and yet still need us for certain things. I my course I have a whole section of lessons talking about the myths and legends that people say and how many of them are not true or are misunderstood. If you do see one of our Amish or Mennonite friends in a store then just smile and go on. You may see a pineapple, orange, banana pie at their stand later in the week. #amishmennonitetn
Today is 3.14 or Pi Day and the Amish do have pies on Saturdays most of the time If circular pie shapes please you, then consider one of the area restaurants for lunch or dinner as Allie Grace Bakery has plenty of pies, cakes, and cookies to choose from. Hinie's BBQ has pizza pies and Shaffer's Meat Market has old fashion pies that go with their bbq plates. The Amish Country Smokehouse also has some circular sides and bbq meats today. See the gallery below and tell us your place for circular treats! The weather is great for sitting outside on a picnic table and all the bbq places have outside patios and seating for you to hear the clopping sounds of the Amish buggies going by so have fun on Pi Day! #amishmennonitetn
Here is another Friday the 13th. A day that is meant to be unlucky and some people have a natural dread. I am fearful however am not scared as a certain level of separation has already occurred long before I got here. The adoption of all inventions that would make our lives better ended up making us worse. In the attempt to do everything, we do nothing well. We can find out all kinds of information and we still have no skills. We are educated to try to know everything but we don't even know who we are. We have become so aggressive that we are alone in our anger and yet so conceded that we feel strongest in our weakest points. Pretending to be wise, we become fools. It's no wonder that the first Anabaptist had rules about not becoming part of the society around you but to become separated from them. Many laugh at the Amish for their backward ways until the power goes out, the banks fail, the food becomes scarce, and there are no reserves. Learn about the agricultural life and community strength in my course called The Complete Guide to Visiting the Amish of Ethridge! Sometimes seeing this way of living in person will mark the start of a whole new way of life for you. You don't have to be Amish to live in a way that is sustainable and prepared. My course is to make sense of what you are looking at so you can take a vacation here and see the community and the points of interest that will start you on your personal journey. I will add this to the comment section below. #amishmennonitetn
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