Antique tractors lined up during the Johnson County Antique Machinery Association annual show in 2022. This year’s event will start Thursday, with events, activities, entertainment and more ongoing to ...

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 ...

The blade of a 135-year-old shingle mill efficiently slid through a rectangular block of wood Sunday to create shingles, which were once used for roofs and siding. Meanwhile, a pair of horses were the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GUILFORD — A four-horse reaper. An antique ice saw. A book published in 1918 titled “Personal Help for the Married.” Whether you’re an American history buff, or a weekend antiquer, those examples of ...

When: noon to dark Friday; 9 a.m. until live entertainment ends on Saturday; and from 9 a.m. until tractor pulls end in the late afternoon Sunday. Where: Oeder's Lake, 1369 U.S. 22/Ohio 3, in Hamilton ...

The operator of the Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum has been ordered by the county to vacate its leased property in West Friendship by Nov. 27. In an Aug. 29 letter to John Frank, president ...

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 ...

— The collecting of antique machinery is a hobby for many locals in this area, but behind the glimmering paint of a freshly restored John Deere tractor is a sense of nostalgia that brings residents of ...