Annual tractor show aims to pull in large crowds

A scene from last years event

On September 8, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. to finish, the Lone Star Antique Tractor and Engine Association will present their 7th Annual Tractor Show and Pull.

The event features activities and fun for the entire family. It will be held in Whitehouse, Texas, three miles east of downtown Whitehouse, off SH 110 on FM 346, East Main Street on the Chip McClain property (formerly the Whitehouse Young Farmers' Facility).

All-day events include displays of antique tractors and gas engines, tractor pulling competition, demonstrations of wheat threshing using a huge belt-driven antique threshing machine driven by an old tractor, hay baling and corn grinding, and much more.

Food concession, arts and crafts, horse painting, kiddie barrel train rides, and kiddie tractor pulls, are of interest for young and old alike.

At 12:00 noon, an auction of new, antique, collectable, craft and miscellaneous items will take place. Proceeds benefit scholarship fund for area college students. Door prizes will be given away.

At 1:00 p.m. a tractor parade of antique, collectable and restored tractors and farm equipment will begin.

The Lone Star Antique Tractor and Engine Association began in 2000 to preserve an interest in the heritage of machinery so important to our nation's farming industry. Today over 100 members regularly attend and participate in this East Texas area organization.

For more information contact Charles Parmley, President, 903-581-3811, or cjparmley@tyler.net