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Pinecraft Featured On 'Amish Out Of Order'

Sarasota's Mennonite and Amish village, Pinecraft, will be featured in National Geographic's "Amish Out of Order" show.

A National Geographic documentary that highlights Amish teens and twentysomethings leaving their order will showcase Sarasota's Pinecraft village tonight.

You can watch it on the National Geographic Channel Tuesday at 9 p.m. and catch a glimpse of Sarasota's Amish and Mennotite community in Pinecraft.

NatGeo was here during Thanksgiving to film for its 10-part documentary, Amish: Out of Order. Pinecraft is anticipated to be in this week's episode "Family Affairs." 

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Pinecraft will also be featured on the season finale, "A Very Ex-Amish Christmas," which airs at 9 p.m. June 19. In that episode, three Pinecraft residents are flown to Missouri for filming. Stay tuned to find out who.

The series follows the lives of Amish and ex-Amish teens and twentysomethings challenges and triumphs in deciding whether to stay with their Amish beliefs and ways or depart and potentially be shunned by their community or family.

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NatGeo is channel 276 on DirecTV, 109 on Comcast, 621 on Verizon HD and 360 on Bright House for those in North Sarasota and Manatee County.

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