The grounds of the Tuckahoe Steam and Gas Association are packed this weekend as the organization puts on its 53rd annual ...

At the height of the mid-August heat wave, I was relieved when an old friend canceled his planned trip to attend a sprawling, old farm machinery show amid central Illinois’ endless, sweltering ...

Walk into the Winamac Town Park at the Pulaski County Fairgrounds during the third week of July, and the first thing that ...

Mike McCracken and Earl Smith both have fond memories of growing up on family farms. McCracken, who is the president of the Crawford Antique Farm Machinery Association, lived on Lemert Road northwest ...

There is a lot more than nuts and bolts tied up in Preston Wells’s extensive collection of antique farm machinery. The history of the agriculture industry, childhood memories and family tradition bond ...

As the Howard County Antique Farm Machinery Club plans to host its 29th annual auction sale at the Howard County Fairgrounds next month, members are looking to the group’s future. The April 20 sale is ...

The Will County Threshermen's Association annual show will be held July 16–19 at Spiess Farm.

SELINSGROVE — A single farmer today can separate grain from straw with a combine, but our grandparents and great-grandparents relied on many people to gather the sheaves from the field and feed them ...

BUCYRUS - Years ago, Mike McCracken's father started collecting hit-n-miss engines. "He had a steam engine, and the boiler went bad in it ... and a guy had a boiler," the Galion man recalled of his ...

Even after six decades of collecting, if Ed Larson feels the itch to haul in a new piece of antique machinery, he cannot help but indulge. Larson, of Milan, Kansas, says he learned about antiques from ...