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Live music, tractor pulls and more at Antique Gas and Steam engine exhibition June 11-12

Posted 6/10/16

MADRID -- The St. Lawrence Power & Equipment Museum will host their antique gas and steam engine exhibition June 11-12 with tractor pulls, miniature horses, country music concerts and food. The …

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Live music, tractor pulls and more at Antique Gas and Steam engine exhibition June 11-12

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MADRID -- The St. Lawrence Power & Equipment Museum will host their antique gas and steam engine exhibition June 11-12 with tractor pulls, miniature horses, country music concerts and food.

The exhibition will take place at 1755 State Highway 345 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day. Live music from Pure Country will be offered Saturday night from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m.

Admission is $5 for ages 12 and up and free for young children.

Other attractions include a maple sugar house, woodcarving, auctions, horse-drawn equipment building featuring the International Harvester tractors and equipment, McCormick, McCormick Deering, and Farmall.

There will be plenty to do including checking out farm animals in the barn, the chicken house, early textile demonstrations, a shoe repair shop and an old-fashioned general store. Raffles will be held.

Once admission is paid, everything is free, except for food.

There will be an old schoolhouse and gas station set up.

Parades are slated for Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning and anyone with a tractor, horse or even a little red wagon is welcome to participate, Austin said.

The tractor and horse pulls, along with the kids pedal tractor race, are always big attractions at the event. Kids can race and enter the tractor pull for free.

Prizes and trophies will be awarded.

Breakfast will be served both days from 7 until 10 a.m. with other concessions available all day. Baked goods and ice cream will also be available.

Saturday events include: 9:30-10 a.m., tractor building dedication; 10-11 a.m., spring plowing and planting; 10:30 a.m., miniature horse pull; 10 a.m.-4 p.m., antique auto and truck exhibit; 11 a.m.-noon, antique sawmill operating; 12:30 p.m., tractor and horse parade; 1 p.m., draft horse pull; 1-2 p.m., spring plowing and planting; 1-2:30 p.m., kids pedal tractor races; 2-3 p.m., antique sawmill operating; 2-4 old iron auction; ham and scalloped potatoes dinner, 4:30-6 p.m.; 6:30-8:30 p.m., live music; 7:30 p.m. 50/50 concludes.

Sunday events will include: 7:30-8 a.m., church in the tractor building; 8-9 a.m., trustees meeting, open to all; 9:30 a.m., horse and tractor parade; 10-11 a.m., antique sawmill operating; 10111 a.m., spring plowing and planting; 10 a.m.-4 p.m., antique auto and truck exhibit; 10 a.m.-5 p.m., antique tractor pull; noon until all gone, BBQ chicken dinner; 1-2 p.m., antique sawmill operating; 1-2:30 p.m., kids pedal tractor pull; 2 p.m., Seaway Cruisers Car Club meet and 2:30 p.m., raffle and silent auction drawings.

Non-food vendors are welcome, but must be museum members and have a sales tax certificate.

For more information, contact 344-74770 or info@slpowermuseum.com or visit www.slpowermuseum.com.