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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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I get so many questions about where to get something that nobody seems to ask what can the experience give me! Some of my best trips have been when I didn't buy anything at all! Many of us complain about the commercialism of the various holidays and then try to find who has the cheapest bulk produce. What ever happened to just taking a drive and enjoying the ride? I find that driving around the Amish community is good for mental health as they will usually always wave at you and seem pleased that you are taking the time to see their community. I my guide to Ethridge course I teach about various subjects about the Amish way of living is foreign to us. In my road trip course I share even more tips on how to plan your trip all the way to what you need to do after the trip is over. Be sure to look into my courses to see if they can help you. As the fall and winter come, the end of the year is great for learning new skills so be sure to invest into your education with my inexpensive $50 courses. See my dedicated page here for what I have created so far. https://progenyadventuregroup.com/the-progeny-shop/ This is the only way I support my page so please consider getting a course of gifting a course to others who could be helped by my educational resources.
The Middle Tennessee District Fair is coming to town Thursday September 24th through October 3rd. This fair is larger than most as its for the middle TN district. There is a good case to be made in combining your Amish adventure with the fair as they do have many local area exhibits and farmer related areas to see. I show many of them below as well as some of the rides. I believe seeing the Amish in the morning and the fair in the evening would make for a nice day of activities so combing the fair with your Amish adventure would be great. See their page here - https://www.facebook.com/MTDFair - to keep up with all fees, activities and special days during the fair. Be sure to have cash for parking and any supporting groups who use the event for local community clubs. #amishmennonitetn
The muscadines are in and at Pleasant Valley Farm you can pick all you want! Tuesday - Saturday 10-6pm and Sundays 1-6pm September through October. It's $10/gallon and you can harvest a lot of them! See their page here - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550614628420 and enter 361 Pleasant Valley road Ethridge TN 38456 into your gps to find the farm. There are Amish who live along the way so you might find more goodies. Park along the road next to the building. Everything you need is there so bring a bag or something to put them in. Have cash to put in the box if no one is there and bring some kids to help you pick. This would be a great way to teach them and let them experience picking fruits.
Muscadine picking at it’s finest! Be sure to go by Pleasant Valley Farm here in Ethridge if you like muscadine. This is a pick your own berries farm that is not Amish owned but is among the roads of Amish community. Bring your kids to help you as they can experience the fun of picking fruits! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18W6L5xesT/?mibextid=wwXIfr
The Plowboy Auction is today so go by and watch and learn if you haven't been before but always wanted to. They open at 11am with bidding at 1pm. They do have a concession area so food and drink are available. See their page here -https://www.facebook.com/plowboyproduceauction
Many of you were asking if the corn shocks are out. Yes they are as you can see in the video. Many of the Amish are getting into selling lambs as beef prices are rising. Some of them believe it could be a substitute as chicken and pork prices are also rising. Pumpkins 🎃 are also getting easier to find and October is the month for sorghum in most places. We occasionally get a late September harvest so be watching for smoke on Saturdays when they make their sorghum. #amishmennonitetn
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