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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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To my course takers. Thrive Themes is who I use for my tech stack and they had an issue yesterday as you can see in the photo below ⬇️. If you had a problem logging in, it should be resolved now. Unfortunately I had a new person to buy my course yesterday and he was stuck in the middle of the update problem but I manually set him up so he can get in. Everything is ok now so you shouldn’t have any problems getting back in. Hopefully my courses will help you plan a trip of a lifetime here! If you are interested in my courses then see this page and click on the button to see the dedicated page! - https://progenyadventuregroup.com/the-progeny-shop/
Strawberries are the main question I get nowadays. Get out early and see where they are. 14 Long road, Old Military Road, Three Oaks Road is my places I usually find them but many have said that 17 Morgan Drive have some coming up. You may see signs by the road but look towards their stand as the photos below show in the top two photos. Strawberries are quickly bought up so be sure to ask the Amish people you see where to get them or when to come back as they will generally hold some for you. Some of them will not as some people are dishonest and never return to get their gallon. You may also see greenhouse grown tomatoes. They are starting to take shape and the Plowboy Auction is saying they may have some at Fridays auction. Green onions and other winter greens may be out at some stands. Look for the greenhouses and you may find a good selection of things as many will have wood heaters that keep the soil temps up and the warm sun can grow plants that are genetically made for cooler climates. #amishmennonitetn
There are a few super stands out there in the community. These stands tend to be larger than other home stands with store like inventory. At 17 Morgan Drive, 3461 Buffalo Road, 146 Crews Road, 103 McDowell, and 99 Oaks Road. These tend to have a lot of things for sale. There are others but I will share them in a later post so Like and Follow my page to make sure you don't miss it. If coming to see the Amish community here sounds like a good idea then see my courses page where I created a few just to help those who know nothing about the plain peoples and would like to know more about taking a vacation here! See my dedicated page here - https://progenyadventuregroup.com/the-progeny-shop/ - where I have pages that tell you all about them! #amishmennonitetn
Be sure to get the address to the places you visit and buy things from. So many people ask me "where is the guy who makes this thing" When you do go in and see the signs you pull in and look around. If there is something you like then take note of it. In my courses I talk about best practices and recording the address is key to writing them a letter to ask the Amish people questions about how to get more of the items you liked. Be sure to Like and Follow me here at my page! #amishmennonitetn
I’m a dedicated family man and haven’t had much to post. I’ve been in Nashville as I’ve got a lot of medical issues and have to go to Vanderbilt every so often. While here I try to get out and visit places with my wife and daughter between appointments. Get out and see things while your health allows.
I got a few bread knives sent to me that are a bit different than those we use. Each one has a pro and a con to it so I’m sure I’ll switch them out as needed. The one I liked the least is the one I’m using in the photo. You need to hold the handle sideways as the handle is flush with the surface when cutting through the bread. I still believe you just can’t beat a good bread knife and we make our own bread and buns! You may find bread out there in the Amish community. Is there a place you would like to tell others about? Tell them where to go in the comment section!
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