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Saturday June 21, 2008 Spring Harvest Fair

June 21, 2008    June 22, 2008    June 28, 2008

Above and below Friday June 20 Pre-Show Free Hot Dog Dinner for everyone on our grounds. Above right Mike, Mr Jeanette Stevens serving home made John Deere ice cream. Above far right our Food Service honcho's left Jack Lester, right Bob Morley. Below left and right our current President Jeanette Stevens.

Above far left, left and right: privately owned 1907 Ford Model S Roadster. The rest Museum owned Ford Model T and Model A trucks

Above far left and left a reproduction Stanley Steamer and a real Maxwell in the corner. Above far right and below 8 AM Safety Meeting. Everyone who will drive or operate any and all types of vehicles need have their drivers licenses recorded and receive distinctive wrist bands. Below far right Virgil White's 1926 Model T Touring.
Above far left the juxtaposition of Virgil White's 1926 Model T Ford, a new Kubota utility vehicle and a red tractor. Above left and right: Show Breakfast in our new Assembly Building. Above far right: Jerry Hass's back advertises our upcoming Summergrass Blue Grass Festival. Below far left: Jerry Hass front. Below left and right: from 6 to 9 AM this is Breakfast Cafe, then from 9 to 4PM it becomes our Bake Shop. Below far right: we are featuring some of our vehicles that have been in movies.
Above far left, left and right both Samson's were in Pearl Harbor. Above far right and below far left our 1932 Available truck is a Railway Express Truck in The Changeling to be released November 2008. Below left: Virgil White's 1924 Mack truck has been in many movies. Below right and far right, I have no idea what make this pickup truck is, nor have I seen this movie.

Above left, right and far right: Virgil White's Autocar was in Bugsy. Below far left: Graphic showing Studio Locations. The deal is kids get a Movie Stars Tour Card and when they find each of Eight Studios and punch their form with the provided number punch, they win a free Ice Cream cone in our Bake Shop. And, if they trap and get our Director Rod Groenewolds autograph get $1.00 off at any of our food service booths. And if they retain their completed tour card it is good for one free admission to our October Show. Below left, right and far right Studio Six. Stargate: was shot in the desert near San Bernardino, and Long Beach CA. Our 1924 Best 30, Ford Model TT truck (Virgil White) 1931 Diamond T truck, 1926 Rumley Oil Pull tractor (Bill Rohr) were in the movie. I have this DVD and it is REALLY hard to find our equipment. In many of the movies our equipment is in the background. I watched Stargate a half dozen times, then asked Virgil White where our equipment is.
Above left and right: 1922 Waterloo Boy. Above far right, below far left: Museum owned 1915 IH Mogul. Below left and right: Miscellanous toys. Below far right Museum owned 1909 Vilter Steam Corliss Ammonia Refrigeration Compressor.
Above far left, left and right Vilter Corliss Steam Refrigeration Compressor. Above far right and below far left: Trustee George Bohn with his just restored pair of circa 1900 Troy 4 HP, 320 RPM @ 100 psig steam pressure. BOTH of these were basket cases when George began restoration. George took the assortment of parts home with him and did the work there in his home shop. George does VERY nice work. Below left: Heritage Center and Vendor area.
Above far left, left and right our Weavers Building Above far right, below far left and left: slow tractor race between our Museum owned 1918 Altman Taylor 30-60 and one of our two Caterpillar D8's. Below right and far right: Crowd in our shaded bleachers at 1:07 PM when it was 105 degrees F in those seats, ready for the start of our parade.
Above far left Boy Scout troop parades our colors while we play our national anthem. Above left: Miss Vista and Miss Teen Vista and their Courts riding in our blue Flower Fields hay wagon. Above right and far right: red and yellow hay wagons. Below: Model T Fords.
Above far left a Model T, above left Model A, above right: Chevrolet, above far right Virgil White, Sharon White and Great Grand Daughter Skylar McHargue in the back seat in Virgils 1926 Model T. Below far left. John Alling on our Museum Owned 1902 16 HP Advance S/N 6744 straw burner. Below left Mike, Mr Jeanette Stevens again. Below right a pair of Gaucho's advertising for our neighbors. Below far right: tractor drawn tractors.
Above right: Julius Schnell operates one of our two Caterpillar D8's. Below: red tractors.
Above far right and below: Chicken Thief Pat Myers swipes a chicken from Old Thresher cook Joan Hollenitsch then caught by (below far left) Sheriff Lazurus Cody (aka Craig Rogers) facing camera and Sheriff Dwight Reed back to camera.
Above far left: Pat Mackin and Rich Eckert, in this era of $5.00 a gallon gasoline -- as they have for decades -- journey 400 miles one way from their Prescott Arizona homes to help us with our shows; operate our Museum owned 1911 Fairbanks Morse kerosene tractor.
Below far left: Virgil White with Skylar drives his 1927 Ford model TT - one ton - truck with Rowe Extended frame kit, with four examples of Model T engines.
Above left and right, as he has for years, Past President and Show Announcer Tom Garrison brings up the end of our parade. Trustee Jack Lester rides in Tom's Manure Spreader. Above far right: parade ended the crowd scatters. Below left: an ancient fund raising quilt where each panel was donated by individual members. It has the name and membership number of many members who have gone before us. For those of you who frequent our site, you will recognize the name David Denny. That is his block, Chicken, middle, second row from top. Below right: The Great Bayou Brothers played 2 to 4 PM on our entertainment stage All pictures Greg Hayden.