Story - The Meade County Messenger


Vol. 117, No. 26	July 1 , 2009

Reliving the past will be possible at Threshing Days July 3-5

Participants can take a step back in time at the 17th Annual Threshing Days, July 3-5, but they’ll be doing so at a different location.

Messenger file photo
This threshing machine – seen here during last year’s show – will be put to good use again July 3-5 during the 17th Annual Antique Machinery Show and Threshing Days. Due to the closure of Otter Creek Park, the show is being held at a new location this year – the Meade County Fairgrounds.

Due to the closure late last year of the Otter Creek Park near Muldraugh, members of the Lincoln Trail Antique Power of the Past, Inc., relocated their show to the Meade County Fairgrounds.

Exhibitors are expected to demonstrate how farmers in the early 1900s used equipment to do threshing and baling.

In addition to the featured tractors – which this year are Massey Harris and Wheel Horse models – spectators can watch threshing and baling as it was done in the 1930s and 1940s. They can also see how single-cylinder engines were used to pump water, churn butter, shell corn, grind meal, pump oil out of the ground and wash clothes.

There will also be demonstrations of draft horses and mules performing various kinds of farm work.

Daily events include frequent parades of antique tractors, with some dating back to the early 1920s, and tractor skill contests designed to demonstrate both operator and equipment versatility.

Exhibitors from Kentucky, Indiana and neighboring states will bring their tractors and other farming implements of yesteryear to display and operate. Artisans are expected to display and demonstrate many old art and hand crafts, such as quilting, blacksmithing and weaving. Flea market and antique row items will be offered for sale.

Children’s activities will include barrel train rides, a pedal tractor raffle and games.

Tractor “games” such as a slow race and a balance beam, are part of the entertainment for participants, according to club president Edd Pike.

Vendors will be on-site offering toys, food, crafts and souvenirs.

On July 5, a nondenominational church service is planned for 9 a.m.

Admission is free and primitive camping is available on site. Show hours are 9 a.m. until dark July 3, and
4 and 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. July 5.

The fairgrounds are at the intersection of Fairgrounds Road and the Bypass. Coming from Indiana, turn left at the second traffic light and from Muldraugh, turn right at the sixth traffic light.

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