{"id":3555,"date":"2019-09-01T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2019-09-01T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:20:15","slug":"2019-steam-era-at-the-sherwood-hume-farm-a-sucker-born-every-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"2019 STEAM ERA AT THE SHERWOOD HUME FARM: “A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cA SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE\u201d<\/div>\n

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THE 2019 STEAM SHOW AT SHERWOOD HUMES FARM<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
August 30, 2019<\/div>\n

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ONE DAY in the early 1960\u2019s my Uncle Frank Freeman dropped by\u2026<\/p>\n


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.\u201dAlan a bunch of farmers<\/p>\n
are showing their old farm machines over on a farm near here, do you want to come?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cThanks for asking me Uncle Frank\u2026love to come.\u201d<\/div>\n

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And I have not missed a Steam Era show in nearly 60 years.  Marjorie is less enthralled<\/div>\n
and  has missed a few of the  shows.   I do  not know why.  This year the show was<\/div>\n
in a bit of turmoil as the Milton Farm Museum site bumped  up the rent five times\u2026FIVE TIMES!<\/div>\n
SO the organizers  made a fast decision to hold the show on the farm of Gladys and  Sherwood <\/div>\n
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Take a gander and see what you like best.<\/div>\n

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Guess what I liked best.<\/div>\n

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Have you every heard of the PARACAS SKULL?  If you have not then<\/div>\n
you are about to be mystified as I was.<\/div>\n

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Our first tractor was an International Formal A\u2026like this little beauty.  We were  so proud of it.  Bought it from Al Fox when he<\/div>\n
retired and then proceeded to make a mess of the farm fields bye dragging an ancient single furrow plow up and down.  I drove<\/div>\n
while dad held the plow handles and called me a \u2018damn fool\u2019.   It was quite a  wonderful few weeks.  Then winter came and  we<\/div>\n
parked the Farmall A behind the farm house.  In theory it would be ready for spring planting.  That never happened. I assumed<\/div>\n
the radiator was filled with anti freeze. Wrong!  WRONG!  It was filled with water and one herd  cold snap was enough to crack<\/div>\n
the engine block.  Scrap tractor resulted\u2026ruined.  As dad said, I was a  damn fool.<\/div>\n

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I really enjoyed these people who  set up their tent promoting \u2018UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD\u2019.  The little tent was jammed with wonderful things most of<\/div>\n
which were hard to believe.  Like the elongated silver looking human skull.  \u201cWhen found in Peru, many thought this was the skull of aliens from outer space\u201d<\/div>\n

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It is called the \u2018[PARACAS SKULL\u2019.   Now that aliens from space explanation was very hard to believe.  As  was the comment that the skull was a copy<\/div>\n
of the original which was destroyed in the London Blitz of World War II.  But the story was amusing.  just for fun I punched up Paracas Skull on my search<\/div>\n
engine.  There are dozens of entries.  Was there a lost tribe of humans with skulls like these?  Find our for yourself.   Stop laughing and do  some  research.<\/div>\n

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Lighten up\u2026your underwear is twisted.<\/div>\n

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Inside the mystery tent there is  a big box promoting the GREATEST LIVING<\/div>\n
WONDER OF ALL.   <\/div>\n

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\u201cBrace yourself, sir, you are about to see one of<\/div>\n
the great wonders of the world.\u201d<\/div>\n

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And she opened the doors of the box.  I leaned  over and looked in.<\/div>\n
Surprise!!!<\/div>\n

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Look who is sitting on the back of Dave\u2019s truck.  Cute.<\/div>\n

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Why do people go to Fairs  like the Steam Era Show?<\/div>\n

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\u201cToo have a good time\u2026and we are devoted to that.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cSome of our strange and funny mysteries are even based on fact.\u201d<\/div>\n

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I spent two hours at the Steam Show.  Guess where I spent most of my time.<\/div>\n

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Just before I left I noticed  this lady and  her dog sitting on this  wagon.<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat are you waiting for\u2026a tractor to pull you?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNo, I\u2019m waiting for my husband\u2026pulling us around the<\/div>\n
Steam Show is his job.\u201d<\/div>\n

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I waited  and watched for a few minutes\u2026.no sign of the husband.<\/div>\n

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Now here is a gem.  Two people with many years gap between them, both enthralled<\/div>\n
by this ancient Massey Harris  tractor.    <\/div>\n

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ALAN SKEOCH<\/div>\n
August 30, 2019<\/div>\n

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\u201cA SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE\u201d THE 2019 STEAM SHOW AT SHERWOOD HUMES FARM alan skeoch August 30, 2019 ONE DAY in the early 1960\u2019s my Uncle Frank Freeman dropped by\u2026 .\u201dAlan a bunch of farmers are showing their old farm machines over on a farm near here, do you want to come?\u201d \u201cThanks for asking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}