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The event started that September
day in 1962 as a club for people to
meet who were interested in steam
engines and threshing machines.
Seers said that it was such a
wonderful day with approximately
300 people in attendance.
Seers enjoys taking her
grandchildren to the Reunion to try to
get them involved and to show them
how people lived and worked years
ago.
When asked if she had any photos
to show of that day, she said with a
smile "no I didn't have a camera back
then to take photos."
"It is unbelievable that the
Threshers started 44 years ago, the
beginning of a great show, which gets
better every year." Seers said
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It was 44 years ago when Maxine Seers first attended the
Thresher Reunion. She still attends the event regularly.
(Heather Dietz photo)
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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2006. PAGE A3.
THRESHER REUNION
Woman recalls cooking at first Reunion
Continued from A2
only Whippet from Canada. The
oldest car that was there was a 1910
Overland from California.
While he was there Procter visited
Mount Rushmore and the Crazy
Horse monument. He also visited
the wildlife in the Custer State Park
in the Black Hills.
"It was a very interesting tour"
Procter said.
This will be Procter's fourth year
at the Thresher Reunion. He says
what he most likes about the
Reunion is visiting and talking to
people about the car, and letting
them have a chance to view it from
the inside.
The reason why Procter likes to
show his car is for people to
By Heather Dietz
Citizen staff
Forty-four years ago the Thresher
Reunion was put on the map. That
year was a one-day show for the first
year.
Maxine Seers of Goderich, who
was there, 44 years ago, still attends
.regularly.
Seers recalls the first event held in
an open field, overgrown with long
grass. She said, "The grass was
eventually tramped down by all the
people walking through."
She said that there was a food booth
on that open field. "It was an enclosed
10 foot square box with no roof, no
fridge and no hydro." she commented.
Seers remembers being asked by
Bill Gow to help cook in the lunch
booth that day. She, along with Marj
Martin, cooked and served
hamburgers that came from Hary
McCallum a local butcher from Blyth.
She remembers being given $10
for her help that day, where half of it
went to the babysitter and the other
half went towards a meal.
Later Seers was also involved with
a local church group from Auburn,
who would come to the Thresher
Reunion every year and sold
homemade pies.
Seers says, "If there werent't any
volunteers who came out every year
then the Reunion would not run."
As the years went on Seers helped
her husband with the antique cars and
tractors.
reminisce about what cars used to Seers recalls, in the first year there
look .like and to bring back old were two steam engines and a few
memories. tractors and a lot of men standing
around talking.
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