On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazards) Joyce Bupp The older one gets, the more one values “old” things. Or at least, it seems that way. Maybe it's from the perspective of “experience" (I like that word better than “aging" that a person can evaluate something on its real worth and not shiny, new paint, glitzy buttons, or flashy digital readouts. The bright, the newest, the improved, the latest version of “progress"...isn't always. But, among this constantly changing, upgrading, moderniz ing, (or maybe because there are so many of us baby boomers hit ting the sombeting mortality reality stage of life) there seems to be a renewed interest in our histor / CLOSED SUNDAYS, NEW YEAR, EASTER MONDAY,ASCENSION DAY, WHIT MONDAY, OCT. 11, THANKSGIVING, riBNITIII CHRISTMAS & DECEMBER 26TH FISHER’S FURNITURE, INC. NEW AND USED FURNITURE USED COAL & WOOD HEATERS COUNTRY FURNITURE & ANTIQUES BUS. HRS. BOX 57 MON.-THURS. 8-5 1129 GEORGETOWN RD. 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For 40 years, these folks have been celebrating our farm heritage by repairing, restoring and Sharing their love for “old farm stuff.” Stuff like huffing, puffing steam engines which pulled plows and harvest equipment, tiny put putting, one-cylinder engines that might grind com or power a wash ing machine, and the early tractors “like my dad first started farming with” many of them will say. Only in recent years have I come to realize how much of that “old farm stuff” originated here in York County. And, this weekend, the EASES’s Steam-O-Rama at their Windsor showgrounds is fea turing farm equipment that was manufactured right here in our own back yard. CATNAPPER Lounger ‘'We If Reg Ret $849 95 flrlfekDealer Refusal you fay $249.04 Under Wholesale Can’t Beat' 200 to Sell Won’t Lastl My , first, job out of high school was a clerical one, near York’s Farquhar Park. But it was years before I realized that this spacious, wooded, open space was named for an individual whose firm man ufactured an impressive variety of agriculture equipment, including threshing machines. Threshers were the forerunners of today’s grain combines, per forming the same basic function of separating the wheat or barley or oats from the chaff, the dried husk part of the plant that sur rounds the grain as it grows and ripens. A 3. Farquhar's mechani cal threshers would have been a tremendous technological leap for our forefather farmers who had grown up “flailing” grain. Flail ing, in simple terms, is beating a pile of harvested stalks on the bam floor with a piece of hand-held equipment until the grain falls out An added draw at the Windsor steam show this year is a national gathering of the Sheppard Diesel collectors. 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