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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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This weekend is busy with several events so traffic will increase today and Saturday. The Plowboy Auction is open today at 11am with bidding at 1pm. The Rumble At The Crossroads Truck and Tractor Pull is this weekend, The Loretto Farmers Market is today at 4:30 while the Lawrenceburg Farmers Market is Saturday at 9am. The Loretto Wing Competition is Saturday at 2pm and the Levitt AMP Concert Series is Saturday at 4pm. I put these on here as many of you will be seeing the Amish this weekend and may want to go by these events. The Homestead Festival in Maury County TN is also going on this weekend so you may see some of them. Have a great weekend and try to get some okra while it's coming out. #amishmennonitetn
The Amish use a one room school house to teach their kids through 8 grades. It's more of a private school that doesn't follow many of our public schools. You may see kids getting out or going to school during the year. These school rooms are scattered along the roads and may be hard to see or mistaken as homes. Bud Taylor road has one really close just before the Amish Country Smokehouse that opens today through Saturday. I have parked along the road and went up to stare in the windows. This is just one more thing you may see while visiting the Amish community. #amishmennonitetn
Ah yes, the question of corn has been hitting my message section. My guess about two more weeks for the fields I seen to turn loose. You may even see some starting to come in as some Amish plant a bit early and may have a few ears. The trouble is just because you see a few ears doesn't mean the bulk is here and it's easy to find. I generally wait to see it at a few stands before I say a crop is in. Vine ripe tomatoes are also a few weeks away even though you may have seen a few. The Plowboy Produce auction has a small table you can buy from directly if you get there before the auctioning starts. Many of the Amish who bring their crops are there at the auction. You can ask them if they may have some crops back at their home stands. Sometimes they sell their odd amounts or crops that come in on non sale day so consider this a secret. For those who would like a huge lot to break up over many of your friends can do so by bidding as you can get a deal and canning is popular right now. Just be on the hunt and ask around while you are out. #amishmennonitetn
By now many of you are off to get the Amish tomatoes, green beans, beets, and everything else that's coming in. For some of you the thought of just pulling up in someone's driveway might be seen as rude. Google "Amish Course" and my website and pages usually come up first as I may have the only ones. For anyone that wants to get a bit of education and advice before you go, please get my premium guides! This is hours of education and videos of me personally teaching you the best way to come here and have a vacation. #amishmennonitetn #amishcourse
Today is meteorological summer and it's this season that attracts the most people. See my video here where I talk about seeing the Amish in summer. This is how my lessons look if you would ever want to take them. I wanted to bring you the best way to bring you educational resources so please look into my premium guides.
The summer months are when most people come to see the Amish. The produce is in full swing and the wagon tours are filled with tourist. Some people have never experienced going to see the Amish people and know nothing about their customs. For this reason I made a course to help people plan their visit here and understand the basics of the Amish beliefs. I show everything in my course that you will need to plan your trip and visit with confidence. I also have a lot of print material to get kids into the trip. You can make your own list with each age as some print materials have packing list and vehicle maintenance list to teach older kids how to be involved in the areas they will soon have the responsibility of learning. See the comment section for more information! #amishmennonitetn
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