Antique tractors lined up during the Johnson County Antique Machinery Association annual show in 2022. This year’s event will start Thursday, with events, activities, entertainment and more ongoing to ...
Mike McCracken and Earl Smith both have fond memories of growing up on family farms. McCracken, who is the president of the Crawford Antique Farm Machinery Association, lived on Lemert Road northwest ...
GUILFORD — A four-horse reaper. An antique ice saw. A book published in 1918 titled “Personal Help for the Married.” Whether you’re an American history buff, or a weekend antiquer, those examples of ...
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, especially when one connects with something from the past that has personal meaning. Antique and vintage farm equipment fits right into that category. Often, folks who ...
BUCYRUS - Years ago, Mike McCracken's father started collecting hit-n-miss engines. "He had a steam engine, and the boiler went bad in it ... and a guy had a boiler," the Galion man recalled of his ...
SELINSGROVE — A single farmer today can separate grain from straw with a combine, but our grandparents and great-grandparents relied on many people to gather the sheaves from the field and feed them ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Haas rides his 1951 John Deere B tractor toward the Crawford Museum of Agriculture at the Crawford County Fairgrounds on ...
As the Howard County Antique Farm Machinery Club plans to host its 29th annual auction sale at the Howard County Fairgrounds next month, members are looking to the group’s future. The April 20 sale is ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brandon Seasly drives a 1942 Allis-Chalmers tractor at the antique tractor show at the Crawford County Fairgrounds Friday evening.
The operator of the Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum has been ordered by the county to vacate its leased property in West Friendship by Nov. 27. In an Aug. 29 letter to John Frank, president ...
Even after six decades of collecting, if Ed Larson feels the itch to haul in a new piece of antique machinery, he cannot help but indulge. Larson, of Milan, Kansas, says he learned about antiques from ...