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Tag: Meigs County OH

Wheat threshing crew on site
September 13, 2019 Farmers/farming / Ohio / Oral histories / Regional food

Those men would eat like hungry men do eat, you know

When they threshed that wheat? Somebody came in with a threshing machine. He made a business of traveling around to all the farms.

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stopwatch overlaid on 2 men wheat field deep dream generator
October 4, 2018 Humor / Ohio

Tricked into pushing one of the best mowers in the county

Next morning Tom Gold was in the meadow bright and early, with his scythe in perfect condition. It was then that Gard Neer appeared.

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