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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1995. PAGE A-3.
Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion 1995
Reunion has full weekend of fun
There she blows
Life as it used to be is recreated at the Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion
through working models, audio-visual demonstrations .and old-fashioned
gadgets that show you what it used to be like.
Learning the skills of rope making
Jenny Ritchie of Blyth helps experienced rope maker Martin Hendriks, left
of Lucknow, create a rope the old-fashioned way. Hendriks says the same
principles are used today.
Reunion a living pioneer museum
A great deal of time, effort and money go
into the planning, of museums these days to
make them come alive for people visiting the
exhibits.
Audio-visual demonstrations, working
models that whirr into action at the press of a
button, all these expensive gadgets try to
help you see how something once worked.
But no museum, no matter hoW expensive
or well-planned can put you right into
history the way the Huron Pioneer Thresher
Reunion can. You can walk right up within a
few feet of the giant steam engines and
watch the pistons punch in and out, watch
the fly-wheel whirr, listen to the steam hiss
out and feel the heat from the boiler. You
can smell the smoke from the fire mingled
with the smell of the grease.
You can watch old time threshing in
action, watch the feeder throw the sheaves
into the separator, listen to the rattle and
rumble of the machine as it devours the
sheaf, smell the warm smell of the straw as it
Last year's Huron Pioneer Thresher and
Hobby Association Reunion drew 16,000
people to Blyth, an increase of 15 per cent
from the previous highest total. The 1995
Reunion promises to be just as successful.
The gates to the 1995 Huron Pioneer
Thresher and Hobby Association Reunion
open on Friday morning, at 8 a.m. On that
first day, there is a jam-packed agenda for
those in attendance.
There is a Fun Tractor Pull at 10 a.m.
There will be local entertainment, on both
the main and second stages, at 12 p.m and 5
p.m. The tractor pull will be held at 1p.m.
There is a Wesley Willis line dancing
demonstration on the Main Stage at 2 p.m.
There is a parade- at 4 p.m., and the jamboree
will be held in the auditorium at 7.
Registration for the jamboree wil be held at
6.
There will be student activities and
threshing demonstrations throughout the
day.
On Saturday, There will be a Tractor Pull
at 10 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon.
There will be local entertainment at 10 a.m.
and 5 p.m. Joe Tiffin's Orchestra will be
performing on the second stage at noon. At
1 p.m., the fiddle competition will be held on
on the main stage, while the Opening
Ceremonies and Brussels Pipe Band will be
on second stage at the same time. Adult's
and children's special events will take place
at 1:30 and 2:00 p.m. respectively.
The Brussels Pipe Band will perform
again, this time at the antique vehicles area,
at 3 and 4 p.m. A parade will be held at
4:30. The Joe Tiffin Orchestra will host a
dance, to be held in the auditorium, at 9 p.m.
There will, as on Friday, be displays
operating and threshing displays over the
course of the day.
On Sunday, the tractor pull will run at 10
a.m. and 3 p.m. A church 'gervice will be
held at 10:30 a.m. There will be local
entertainment at noon, 2, 5 and 8 p.m. The
adult and children's special events will be
held, once again, 1:30 and 2 p.m. The step
dance competition will take place on the
main stage at 2 p.m. A parade will run at
4:30. There will be displays and threshing
demonstrations throughout the day.
Fine fiddlin'
Bev Hansen of Pt. Colborne took
part in the fiddling competition a the
Thresher Reunion
spits out the straw blower.
You can walk down to the sawmill and
hear the scream of the big circular blade as it
cuts its way through the logs, smell the hot
sawdust as it is cast out.
You can hear the sputter of the little gas
engines in another area of the grounds, listen
to the racket from the antique gas tractors.
A visit to the Thresher Reunion is really a
total immersion in history for all the senses.
There's the scent of beans cooking in an
open pot, the sound of the old-tyme fiddler
over on the grandstand.
And if you're lucky, there might be a
chance to talk to some of the people who
used to run this type of equipment in real
life. At least there's the chance to ask the
operators of the equipment how it works and
the history of the piece of machinery.
For a history buff it's a chance to really
understand an important time of our history,
those years when people working on the
farms of Ontario helped shape the world we
know today.
Mark Your Calendar 4
VAN EGMOND FOUNDATION
CANDY CANE CRAFT SHOW & SALE
on
Saturday, November 18
& Sunday, November 19/95
at the
Seaforth Community Centre