My hometown has a festival every year called The Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.  The name implies that it is simply a celebration of antique threshing machines, but its so much more.  It celebrates all steam-powered machinery – not to mention settler culture (both frontier towns and prairie log villages), fried food, small town values, pretend gun fights, crafts, country music and a barnloads of mint condition classic cars.

Tags: festival, iowa, mt. pleasant, old, parade, threshers

One Response to “Old Threshers”

1. Mary Kate File Says:
   October 20th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

   Damn it. Never thought a picture of a large hunk of cast-iron would feel like a warm hug. Well done sir. Well done! Oh, my favorite picture is of the “rascal scooter”or “hover-round”. NAILED IT! Hope all is well.