submitted by Kevin O’Malley
The Tractor and Agriculture Show is an exciting feature at the sixth annual Pumpkinpalooza community-wide event. Antique and vintage tractors, horse drawn farm equipment and implements, as well as contemporary machinery, will be on display in Walter A. Wood Park on Saturday, September 27, from 8 am to 3 pm.
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The Walter A. Wood Reaping and Mowing Company made wooden horse drawn farm equipment right here in our town from 1865 to 1924 and sold machinery to farmers in Hoosick and around the world – as far away as the Middle East and Russia. It was the Wood company that made Hoosick Falls a boomtown in the 19th century so it is particularly appropriate for a Tractor and Agriculture Show to be a part of Pumpkinpalooza, the major annual Hoosick Falls event. Following his lead, many other businesses came into Hoosick, bringing people and money with them. Because of this, the Wood Company is often credited with building Hoosick Falls – back in the day.
Kevin O’Malley is organizing this event and is looking for folks from Hoosick and the surrounding communities to enter their equipment in the show. He is interested in people showing all different makes and models and years, but most especially he is hoping for vintage Walter A. Wood equipment.
Best in Show prizes will be awarded for old and new equipment. For more information or to register, call Kevin at 518-894-5035 or email him at hoosickkid@gmail.com. You can also visit www.hayc3.org. Click on Community Events, scroll down to Pumpkinpalooza, and then click on Tractor & Agriculture show. Or call HAYC3 at 518-686-9050.
Can’t wait to see you (and your tractor) there![/private]