2003 Reunion
This year's show was blessed with very comfortable weather. We had many visitors to our reunion, and as always, it was nice to have the chance to visit with one another and catch up on one another's latest acquisitions and projects. One new thing that went on was former president of our club, Bill Stahl, and some friends and family steamed apple butter and sold it in pints to help raise money for our land fund. It tastes and smells delicious! Thanks, Bill! Our feature line of Massey Harris was well represented. Thanks go out to all the volunteers who make our show possible, the exhibitors, and those who donate the use of materials and equipment to our club. Please take some time and feast your eyes on some of the fine equipment that was displayed at our show this year. Click on the thumbnail photos below to be taken to the full size photo. Then use the "Back button on your browser to return to this page to select another photo to view.
Our featured equipment: (these aren't thumbnails)
Brian Vaughn's 20 HP Keck-Gonnerman (which unfortunately wasn't quite finished
being restored in time for the show)
Dick Martin's Massey Harris 20
Marion Liggett's 6 HP Witte
Views of the Circle
The Appleton saw owned by Denis Schrank
Corn shredding
More corn shredding
From the top of the hill
Another scene
Rock crushing
A few of the nice steam engines at our show:
Noel Ertel's Case, Tim Trabel's George White, and a Peerless owned by George Caudell
Here are some awesome truck exhibits.
Check out this sampling of the unique tractors and equipment our members brought in.
This one looks like he belongs on a children's TV show with his big buggy eyes
atop his smiling face!
This New Holland self-propelled baler generated a lot of interest.
Keck Gonnerman was our feature steam engine, but we even had a Keck Gonnerman
tractor. How many of those do you ever see?
Big Massey power!
Not a minnie but a massive Moline owned by the Edgar Marlatt family
An unusual Massey Work Bull
Educational and entertaining exhibits on the top of the hill:
Frenchie, the blacksmith and Ron Galyen, the potter, as well as some old time musicians from Cincinnati, OH.
An incredible spark show Friday night!
You can see in some of the photos the ash and sparks raining down from burning the sawdust in the fireboxes of the engines - one of the main ingredients for a spark show. I unfortunately missed the best part - they had three engines going at once later in the evening. Come and watch sometime. As long as the weather is not too dry or too wet, we put on a good show!