Last Sunday, while I was visiting my parents in Indiana, I attended the local 4-H fair. There was an open house at the agricultural museum with demonstrations including soap making, rope making, and a 19th-century one-room school. I went back again the next day for the annual gathering of my mom's family at the fair. We had lunch in the ag museum and then talked until well into the afternoon. I took some photos, mostly of old tractors.
Other modes of transportation on display in the ag museum.
Forty years ago my cousins dominated the dairy barn at the fair. Today their kids dominate . . . the small animal barn.
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| My uncle's 1920s John Deere tractors |
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| My uncle's 1950s Ford tractors, modified with V-8 engines |
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| Art deco tractor #1: 1952 Oliver |
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| Art deco tractor #2: 1956 Cockshutt |
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| 1940s Allis-Chalmers |
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| 1939 McCormick-Deering Farmall |
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| Tractor ride for the kids |
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| 1935 Silver King |
Other modes of transportation on display in the ag museum.
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| Small covered wagon |
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| 1901 Oldsmobile |
Forty years ago my cousins dominated the dairy barn at the fair. Today their kids dominate . . . the small animal barn.
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| My cousins' chickens |
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| My cousin's rabbits |
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| Newly hatched chicks in the incubator |
3 comments:
I see the covered wagon and worry about dying of dysentery.
Umm, chicken, rabbits, yum.
Reminds me of the song "In my merry Oldsmobile"
Oh how I love a good fair! The Western Idaho Fair was always the week and weekend before school started in Boise and we always went. Somehow it always signals for me the epitome of summer! Nice to have you back in the blogosphere!
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