ROLLAG Minnesota 2006 - CLIP 1 www.rollag.com

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ROLLAG Minnesota 2006 - CLIP 1 www.rollag.com

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ROLLAG 2006 - CLIP 1 ROUGH CUT - OPENING Not much steam on this clip, just an opening look. The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion is held every Labor Day Weekend in Rollag, MN Rollag is located on MN Hwy 32, 13 miles South of Hawley MN at the junction of US Hwy 10 August Frisk singing "Oh Canada" & The Star Spangled Banner" in Rollag Minnesota http://www.rollag.com/ A description of the WMSTR from a fans web page: http://web2.airmail.net/bealke/rollagshow.htm Rollag Minnesota - The Splendid Home Of The Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion Rollag, MN - Labor Day Weekend, 1997 Part 1 - The Setting Rollag is a jewel of a show that shines radiant in a gorgeous setting - rolling wheat and hay fields rimmed by lakes and ponds, green pastures, fertile plowed ground, and and on one side the town with its two handsome church steeples. For me the centerpiece was the farmstead. Sure took me back to my younger days on the farm. The show bustles with a variety of activities that recall the area's past. I watched steam engines pulling plows and powering a sawmill that received logs raised from the water nearby onto horse drawn wagons. A steam locomotive and tractor-drawn wagons were moving around the large site almost continuously to help the folks attending get about to see everything. In one building there was a fine collection of miniature engines. Another building (by the RR tracks) is a small town train station. Opening the door of that wooden establishment is like stepping back in time 100 years. It has authentic wall signs, telegraph set, wooden benches, coal stove and the rest of the trimmings from another age. As with most such events, a good part of the fun for me is watching the volunteers explaining how the relics from their (allright, our) childhood and before operated. While I was sitting in the train station, a volunteer my age was explaining the workings of the telegraph to a woman and her young, attentive son. The show's widespread reputation is a tribute to hard work by skilled volunteers, good planning and management, a wondrous variety of working tractors and other antiques displayed, plus the support of attendees and the surrounding area. Hosting this annual world-class show has become a major local tradition, and the folks that live in this part of the country are obviously proud of the fame of the show and the part they play in recreating the past here every year. They have good reason to be." Exhibits include... Daily Parades Style Shows Music and Dancing Steam Tractors Hot Air Powered Engine Pioneer Farm with Waterwheel Steam Trains DeLa Vergne Oil Engine Farming with Horse Power Gas Tractors Otto Gas Engines Threshing & Plowing Gas Engines 600 hp "Snow" Engine Sawmills Stationary Steam Engines Antique Trucks & Cars Print Shop 50th Show 2003 Antique Test Flour Mill Blacksmith Shop Miniature Land - Models Engines Steam Hammer Prony Brake-Testing horse power of steam & gas tractors MM Expo 2002 Log Cabin Museum Pioneer Homemaking Demonstrations Roundhouse & Turntable RR Depots Merry Go Round Steam Shovel RR Motor Cars Fargo-Moorhead Conventions and Visitor's Bureau 40 Detroit Lakes Visitor's Bureau 35 Fergus Falls Visitor's Bureau 40 From Fargo-Moorhead I-94 East to Downer exit Left on 10 to 32 Right on 32 to WMSTR entrance From Fergus Falls I-94 West to Barnesville / 34 exit Right on 34 to 32 Left on 32, through Rollag to WMSTR entrance From Detroit Lakes West on 10 to 32 Left on 32 to WMSTR entrance

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HHS76

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ROLLAG, MINNESOTA, WMSTR, STEAM, HAWLEY, August, Frisk, Oh, Canada, National, Anthem, TRACTOR, Hill, Machines, Erector, Set,