[SEL] Fw: [AT] Put a tentative mark on your calenders

Steve W. falcon at telenet.net
Sun Oct 3 12:39:43 PDT 2004



>          Our U-Pick pumpkin patch is going over well enough this year
that
> I have decided to start planning right now for a big pumpkin festival
here
> at TMCOTKU (Shelbyville, Indiana) on the first weekend of October
(first
> and second) 2005. Part of the event will be an antique tractor show
(and
> putter) and I want to invite ATIS members to bring tractors or at
least
> themselves to the event. There will be no general admission to anyone.
I
> don't know insurance details yet but an about $5 membership fee may or
may
> not be necessary to cover insurance cost. I still need to talk with my
farm
> insurance company again to clarify a few details of what they will
cover
> and what I will need to cover with outside coverage.
>          There are millions of details to handle yet and a lot of
planning
> and preparation to do between now and next Oct. We are right now
planning
> for about 5 acres or more of U-Pick pumpkins. I intend for it to be a
very
> busy weekend for anyone who comes. There will be primitive camping
> available for exhibitors and some guest and some with limited
electrical
> available. Slightly like Cubfest 2004 but in a different location and
a
> "lot" bigger area. All camping will be free.
>          I have fallen in love with demonstration activities (when not
> under water like Portland) and am planning for a lot of different
> activities to watch. As I get planning a little further along I will
post
> an outline of planned activities (it will be a bunch). We are also
planning
> hay rides, perhaps by tractor and horse both. All such activities are
free.
>          If someone would be so kind as to pass this along to the SEL
I
> would enjoy listening to some engines too.
>          Unlike Cubfest which we kept fairly quiet locally this thing
could
> get pretty big. We will be a lot more ready for this one than I was
for
> Cubfest. We have been doing a fair amount of cleaning and landscaping
since
> Cubfest and have a much better sense of direction now.
>          Unlike Portland and even the Conner Prairie living history
museum
> we demo at each year, here we will have hundreds of bushels of corn to
> shell and lots of slab wood to buzz saw up. We may also have some
sorghum
> to squeeze and cook if I can get my timing right.  I have a press but
will
> have to find or build a cooker. Also here many activities can involve
> digging in the dirt a little.
>          Mark your calender and I will keep you posted...
>
>
>
> "farmer"
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>




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