Take a boatload of antique steam engines, throw in the excitement of a tractor pull and a host of sawmilling and threshing demonstrations, and mix it all with hoards of history and machinery buffs - and you have the perfect backdrop for the 46th Annual Lakehead Harvest Show.
Slated for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24-25-26, the popular annual event will once again take place four miles north of Esko on St. Louis River Road from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. There will be a parade of machinery daily, slated for Friday and Sunday at 4 p.m. and on Saturday at 1 p.m. Drawings will be held each day following the parade.
The event is open to the public and the grounds will be open in any weather. There is free parking on the grounds, which are accessible to the handicapped.
A stock antique tractor pull is slated for Saturday at 2:30 p.m., with a special stock garden tractor pulling contest set for Sunday at 1 p.m., followed by a slow tractor race at 2:30 p.m.
Featured during the three-day event will be something for everyone in the family, including pony rids, food concessions, sawmilling, threshing, blacksmithing, shingle making, an antique rock crusher, field work and potato digging demonstrations, steam and gas model machinery, antique vehicles and toys, antique construction equipment, a flea market, ladies' activities, and a church service on Saturday evening.
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Camping is available and free to exhibitors.
Though the event is free of charge, a suggested donation is $7 daily or $13 for the entire weekend, with children 11 years and under free. Those contributing a donation will receive a wristband, button and door prize ticket.
The event is sponsored by the Lakehead Harvest Reunion Inc., an educational, non-profit organization founded in 1961 by a few men who were interested in restoring their tractors. The club grew from there and is dedicated to the preservation and display of historic steam and gas driven tractors, engines and farm equipment.
For more information, log on to: www.lhhr.org .
Pine Journal Publisher/ reporter Wendy Johnson can be contacted at: wjohnson@pinejournal.com .
