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Nostalga Found at Old Trusty
There’s to be good, old-fashioned fun for all ages at the 41st Annual Old Trusty Antique and Collectors Show slated for Sept. 9-10. It will be held at the fairgrounds in Clay Center with admission including parking and a grandstand show.
Taking the spotlight this year is Avery steam engines, tractors, equipment, lawn and garden tractors, Fairbanks-Morse. The Avery Company, founded by Robert Hanneman Avery, was an American farm tractor manufacturer famed for its under-mounted engine which resembled a railroad engine more than a conventional farm steam engine. Avery founded the farm implement business in Gatesburg, IL in 1891.
B.D. and the Boys is a fivepiece dance band that will perform at the Grandstand. They play music from the 60s and 70s on Saturday at 7 p.m. On Sunday at 11 a.m., Full Circle Reed Family Band will entertain.
Be sure to join the fun on Friday’s trail ride and tractor drive. Don’t miss out on the tractor pulls scheduled Saturday and Sunday or the parades each day. Exhibits and demonstrations will showcase historic ways our forefathers farmed with rope making, broom making, candle making, weaving, Dutch oven cooking shelling and plowing.
There will be plenty of shopping opportunities at the annual indoor-outdoor flea market featuring crafts, antiques, and collectibles.
You won’t go away hungry as a delicious country chicken barbecue is planned for Saturday and a country pork barbecue Sunday. A food stand will be open to the public as early as 6:30 a.m. A pancake breakfast will be served Sunday from 6:30 -9 a.m.
Admission is $7 each day. For updates, more information and complete schedule, be sure to visit https://www.oldtrustyshow.org/
An egg incubator was created and in Clay County and named “Old Trusty” after the owner’s “Trusty.”
