[AT] New question

[Al Jones]

Southeast Old Thresher's Reunion in Denton, NC in 1994 or thereabouts.

Al


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> From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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> Date: 1/4/2010 11:03:42 AM
> Subject: [AT] New question
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> What was the first old tractor show you ever attended?
> -
> 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.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Have you hugged your horses today?
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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