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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.
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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So what do you when it rains? Go see the Amish anyways! They will still be open but I would carry a umbrella. The Plowboy Produce Auction is rain or shine on Monday-Wednesday-and Friday at 1pm. The Wagon Tours have flaps that pull down if a shower pops up. You could go see the surrounding non-Amish antiques stores and flea markets. Or let Bruce cut the cheese for you to sample at the Amish Market. Or get the best soap, hair pucks, deodorant, lotion, laundry soaps, lip balm and more from Berg Apothecary at 322 Good Hope Road! Make the most of your trip and the reduction in traffic by going during the rainy weather! You may even want to reward yourself with a Hinie's BBQ steak! #amishmennonitetn
Oh my a lot of you want to know more about the Mennonite! Many of you have asked about the Mennonite on Beeler and the Mennonite in Cypress Inn Tennessee in Wayne County. They are not the same Mennonite but both are old order and drive horse and buggy. Both of these communities are not far from each other. When I was in Fairview Kentucky I met with the Mennonite there and heard they were looking to make a community in Cypress Inn where their kids can farm. They will have produce but they are still building heir community and homes so I show the trip I took from last year below. Many of you come from Alabama and highway 17 becomes 13 in Tennessee where you can drive up to their stands before going over to Ethridge. I own both this page and the Amish and Mennonite of Tennessee page where I go all over the south and visit Amish and Mennonite communities. Like and Follow us here - https://www.facebook.com/amishmennonitetn - if you want to keep up with the Amish and Mennonite in the other parts of the area. Ethridge is still the largest and best place to experience the Amish as there is simply more to see and explore. Use the google map for the Cypress Inn Fire Department for the directions to the Mennonite Community in Cypress Inn as the community is just passed it at the crossroads of David Patterson Road and Berry Road intersection. https://maps.app.goo.gl/hSAXgw9tPwfV2UKb8
One of our Followers sent me photos of her new Amish made bedroom suite and secretary desk made by the Joni Hostetler family at 46 Indiana Avenue. She is very pleased with the work and construction of their new furniture. I'm very happy to hear that they are pleased and the photos give you an example of the Amish skills. I also believe Ms. Hammonds has good taste in colors and matched everything beautifully! I am passing this along so if you have something you believe others could see as an example then send it to me by messenger.
Now wait a minute! Does this look like an Amish buggy? Windshield? Blinker lights? Back reflectors? Maybe even a thin strip of rubber on the wheels? Of course this buggy is from the Mennonite on Beeler Road as they moved here years ago and I have been waiting for them to grow a bit before talking about them. So far they have a hardware store and metal bending type place and sometimes have plants for sale as they do now. You see them like the Amish by going over to their shops and farms. I'll have more coming out soon as I need to revisit them and the Cypress Inn Mennonite in Wayne County. #amishmennonitetn
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