The Anderson County Flywheelers are gearing up for this year’s gas engine and tractor show to be held Friday and Saturday, October 3-4 in Garnett’s Lake Garnett Park. The show will feature a unique experience for area youth on Eriday, October 3rd, known as education day. The flywheelers invite all high school and elementary classes as well as homeschooled students to engage in hands-on activities, exhibits and demonstrations, such as a cider press, corn shelling and grinding, shingle making, rope making, blacksmithing and more. All the activities feature vintage farm equipment used in “yesteryear,” with educational narratives by equipment operators about how every day projects used to be completed before technology went from iron and grease to microchips. New this year is the special appearance by the Southwest-Southland Dairy Farmers Mobile Dairy classroom and “ag equipment of Anderson County” as presented by the Anderson County Historical Society. There will also be a demonstration on farm safety.
