Threshing Festival, Sept. 7-8

Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6-8, the 36th Annual Threshing Festival will be held at Farming of Yesteryear, 1736 600th Ave., Kiester, Minn. (two miles east on Hwy. 2, then two miles south). This year’s event will feature Allis-Chalmers tractors and machinery.
Plan on spending the weekend watching antique tractors, work horses, and festival goers as they ‘work’ their way through the two-day event threshing, blacksmithing, harnessing up the horses, or just enjoying this fun and educational environment for the entire family.  
The annual event has lots to offer including a barrel train, candle making, spoon carving, horsedrawn rides, rug weaving, sorghum making and tours of the farm house and country church.
Highlights include a horseshoe tournament Saturday at 2 p.m. A Barn Dance featuring local band “Somethin’ Country” will be held Saturday evening at 6 p.m.
The tractor parade will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, and 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
Church services will be held at 7 a.m. Sunday, followed by a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. Cribbage will be played after the 1:30 p.m. tractor parade. A gospel/blue grass band “Homespun” will entertain the crowd beginning at 2:30 p.m. The raffle drawings for Allis-Chalmers prizes will be held at 4 p.m.
For more information, go to www.farmingofyesteryear.com.