Bob Nesselroad, a volunteer at Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa, stands on an antique steam tractor during a threshing demonstration in August 2022. (Rox Laird/Courthouse News) (CN) — ...

When mid-August rolls around, my thoughts always revert back to harvest time back in the 1940s and 1950s when this aging writer was a youth eager to take on any task asked of him. The old threshing ...

The two tractors that are in the movie “Walk the Line,” the 2005 film about Johnny Cash’s life. A Co-Op #1 Orchard tractor manufactured in 1933 that is the only one like it in the world. A threshing ...

Naper Settlement is introducing the new “Thresher Experience” exhibit to the public, bringing to life a 1912 Wood Brothers Threshing Machine. The exhibit, which opened this spring for field trips, ...

Calling all farmers – past, present and future – and farming aficionados! It’s the 43rd annual Heatwole Threshing Show this weekend – Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14 – about 6 miles southwest of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Ronald Miller of Geneseo, Illinois, ...

Actress Indra Burkovska tells the story of her father Aleksandrs and his large family and life on the farm through the 20th century when the farmer was both a master and a slave to his land Aleksandrs ...

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