[AT] New question

[Best, George]

My first show was probably around 1975 at the Great Oregon Steam Up held at the Antique Powerland grounds near Brooks Oregon.  There have been very few years since then that I haven't exhibited tractors or engines at that show.

I was in my late 20's at the time and had never been around antique tractors, steam engines, or stationary engines.  Needless to say, I got the bug and still have it.

I know the question is "first old tractor show you ever attended", but wonder if you went because you wanted to go or if you were taken there on a family outing.  I think most people first attended these shows because their parents took them and their family was involved with farming.

George

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What was the first old tractor show you ever attended?
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I'm pretty sure it was the Rushville Indiana show, in the next county
east of me. I had been to an old threshing show at least before with a
steam engine, a threshing machine, wagons or bundled wheat and a
number of horses. That was at the Indiana State Fair (next county
north west) about 1954 or so. One of the things that sticks in my mind
from that was that my father ruined his shirt while watching (lots of
white shirts in those days) from the drifting mist from the engine
stack. It never would wash out.
I attended a later show out on a farm in Johnson County (next county
west, Franklin IN) with a cousin from Chicago. We were about 14. The
big picture stuck in my mind there was that it was the first time I
had seen a team decked out in full body leather strip fly covers.
Those were pretty expensive, still are.



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Have you hugged your horses today?

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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