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And it's not just a guys' sport

28 Sep 2014 219
Getting ready for her run as her pit crew makes sure everything is right, four-year-old MacKenzie Reeves of Athens, Ohio, is a veteran garden tractor pull driver – she’s been driving since she was two.

They start tractor pulling when they're young, too

28 Sep 2014 198
Competitors begin early in the sport of tractor pulling. Here’s Ethan Grimm, age 3, of Circleville, Ohio. Kids compete in garden tractor pulling events most weekends throughout the country.

John Deere wheel detail

There was music

28 Sep 2014 185
Bluegrass and gospel, mostly. People in this area learn to play when they're very young, and continue to play all their lives.

Traveling in style!

Recycling, country style

28 Sep 2014 191
Books for sale are displayed in a box once involved in the area's coal mining past.

Learning the old ways

28 Sep 2014 172
Three-year-old Avery Hart of Athens, Ohio, busied herself collecting sawdust on a newly sawn board. Her parents said they brought her because they wanted her to learn about the industry that built the area into what it is today.

Steam-tractor-powered sawmill

28 Sep 2014 233
The sawdust flies as Lancaster’s Tim Luft demonstrates his 1892 Vicks Brothers sawmill, which is powered by a belt coming from a 1916 steam tractor.

Steam-powered tractor from 1916

Grist mill, exit end

28 Sep 2014 196
Buckwheat flour emerges from the grinding burr stones in the grist mill.

10-hp International engine

28 Sep 2014 149
This ancient machine (with its novel radiator that drips the heated water over a metal screen for cooling before pumping it back into the engine) has powered a grist mill for more than a century.

Men marvel at machines

In the family since new

28 Sep 2014 160
Harold Keller of Glouster, Ohio, shows off his 1934 Superior diesel drilling engine. Made in Springfield, Ohio, the engine was purchased new by Harold’s great uncle Jake and has been in the family business ever since.

Built from scratch

28 Sep 2014 167
Richard Arnold of Marietta, Ohio, blows the whistle on the miniature steam-powered tractor that he built from scratch for his son, Bill. The project took him two years.