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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.
amish of ethridge tn group of boys getting hay
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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There are many visitors coming to the Plowboy Furniture Auction this Saturday with family. Some of them will not want to be at the auction all day so I will be sharing a few events and places to go. The Farm Artisan Market is also Saturday at 9am at The Farm Community in Summertown Tn. This event is full of vendors like those below in the gallery. They are also good for kids as they have a lot of vendors who have kids activities and there are play equipment to play on. There is usually a few food trucks so bring cash and a store with restrooms. See their page here - https://www.facebook.com/share/1BoTKrbJmx/ - where you can find out more. They have this same market each second Saturday from April to October and I find things here the Amish don't have like Kimchi and Bowers Meats. I am not sure who all will show up so the gallery is just an example of who came during my own visits. The event seems to get bigger each year so this event would be great to include on your Amish Adventures. #amishmennonitetn
The Plowboy Produce Auction annual furniture sale is this weekend, Saturday April 11th at 9am. Be sure to go early in the week (wed-friday) to get a number and if you are coming from a long ways off then you need to book your rooms. The Hampton Inn will open April 10th and the Best Western Plus is there if you need a hotel. The B&B and AirBnB places should also be available if you need one but will fill up fast. We do have a page on my website where you can find a place to stay if you are coming to Ethridge - https://amishofethridge.com/places-to-stay/ I do hope this helps.
Happy Easter Sunday everyone! While we still have a few minutes to enjoy before tomorrow, could you view some of my premium guides? I would love ❤️ for you to look through them on my dedicated page where I list them here - https://progenyadventuregroup.com/the-progeny-shop/ - share this post with other and Like and Follow this page! #LikeFollowShare
*Reminder* The Amish are off today for Good Friday but many of the surrounding English stores are open. I can give you a tip for when you do get out again. Get a jar divider for your trips as the roads are rough and make your glass jars clack together. Many of the stores will let you have the stock boxes for shipping if you ask them. Amazon had the one in the photo for 32oz jars. The Amish do work the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday and they also take the Monday after Easter off to fish and relax. I do hope this helps. Like and follow my page if you haven’t already! #amishmennonitetn
Brace yourself for the Amish April Fools jokes and memes are online today. Some are really funny but some are not so. The Amish do have a teasing way about them from other family members. They say it makes you tough and is generally allowed. There are book in most libraries about the Amish from Amish and Mennonite authors. Most people only want to know where the produce is and care nothing about the plain peoples but for those who do, you can find these books and learn more. I explain way more in my courses but in todays age, people believe they know everything and will not take the time to educated themselves. Below are two of my best recommended books if you can only find one of them then The Amish Way is about half the size of the other. #amishmennonitetn
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