[AT] Slow and steady goes the tractor parade

[Carl Tatlock]

The MAd Scots Farmer wrote:
> So what's the bid deal....WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa`
> Have been having tractor rides for years. Even the local
> Heartland COOP has had one for 3 years. 
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> If all the hoopla is because an eastern state is finally having one,
> Then more power to them. But calling it "Tractorcade America"
> seems a bit presumptuous to Midwestern eyes.
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> Landen Schooler
> Palmyra, Iowa
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>> Easy, now, Landon Laddie..  Dinna get yer knickers in a twist.  This auld man and his besom buddy (Scots joke--"Ow!..stop hittin' me with that haggis-- I'll take it back!!)
>> have been in a local tractor parade here in sunny East Charlotte, Vermont for aolmost 25 years (Well, OK, seven years.)  It's purely a neighborhood thing-- but we fielded 100 tractors, have a parade. We run a couple miles down the road,up the hill, and back to the town green in frot of the corner store. Some restored, some right out of the field. 99% old ones-- lots of kids and families, hay wagons, all park afterward so flatlanders can look at tractors up close-- and maybe get a good whiff of natural exhaust from area dairy cows.  
>> All in good fun-- the town selectmen even close the road for the parade.  The band and the hot dogs are good too.  Always second Sunday in October if you are up this way.  Purely a grassroots production-- no sponsors, no advertising, just like a good old fashioned barn-raising (without the barn).  Bet there are a lot just like it in ALL parts of the USA-- wherever there are elderly gentlemen driving elderly agricultural equipment...              Carl Tatlock
>>  Oh, BTW, as a help to non Scottish people, the "joke" above:  "Besom" means "old witch"-- something you never want to call your helpmate..... if ye ken what's gude for ye.

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