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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.
We hope you trust us with our opinions on this website and our many others. We have been all over the state of Tennessee visiting every Amish and Mennonite community to give visitors the best information. The traveling is nice but we must get back to writing and recording videos and live shows to give another perspective in our hopes to give you the best information possible.
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*Update* There has been okra, eggplants, bell peppers, and some have said they found a few purple hull peas! Green beans, corn, tomatoes, cantaloupes, and previously found produce should be easy to find. Jalapeños and other hot peppers are also becoming more plentiful. I share these as options and I have no idea if the place you visit will have them but if you go to enough places, then you should be able to find a lot of produce. For those who bought my courses, thank you and I hope you enjoy learning from my educational materials. #amishmennonitetn
*The Amish Will Be Open July 4th!* So many of you have asked this question that I am making it the top of my post. Will it be busy? Yes! Go Monday through Thursday to their homes so others can go Friday and Saturdays and not be stuck behind a trail of cars. I hardly ever go in on Friday and Saturday as there can be quite a crowd! Be sure to park in a manner that lets those who first arrive to leave. Be sure to get a map or the welcome center's newer map and venture out on Campbellsville and Denson Roads and the connecting roads as many of you only travel the route used by the wagon tour. There are so many Amish stands with produce now so go in and see them. The Plowboy Auction will be open July 3rd as any of us are off work that day. #amishmennonitetn
If you have time today could you please look into some of my guides? I personally created them to help people with their visit to the Amish community and the area. I go through the history of the anabaptist movement and how they came to Ethridge, what season to visit, what to where, plus all the travel logistics and points of interest. I will share more in the comments but do plan on coming to see the Amish during the second half of the year!
Be sure to see the points of interest while out visiting the Amish! Anyone with kids with them should look at this post. There is a lot of things to do in the Ethridge/Summertown area. Most people will have the best luck between 8am and 5pm as the Amish have to do their chores before the stands get produce and once everyone goes in to eat. For most people they can't visit this long or they get what they came for early and want something else to do. Here is just a small amount of popular things to do in the Ethridge/Summertown area! You might get home one day and find out you could have done something interesting! #amishmennonitetn
Go for a drive! The joy of riding around to see what you can find is art of the fun! This is why I always say "To Amish is to Hunt" you must learn to look and hunt if you are going to be good at this. If you have taken my course you would know this. I try to take a charcuterie tray I call my "snackle box" and plan on taking a few hours to find things. I take my daughter and wife with me so they can get out of the house and ride the roads. Each time you visit you get better so keep good notes in a note pad and just ride around. When you see a sign with a lot on it, just pull in and see what they have. It's that easy!
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