Our 150kw steam generator will power the whole park one day.
This is just a small part of the tractors that came for the pull.
Many people visited the Short Pump Grocery Store, rode a tram pulled by a steam tractor, talked with rangers from the Department of Forestry at the fire tower, and listened to live music played at many locations.
Ed Wesley grows the sorghum cane, squeezes out the juice, then cooks it down to sorghum molasses.
Billy Ottley is into construction ANY size job. We need more like him.
The woodwright shop was new in '97
Michael Carter and his Amish Carrage was new in '97.
Each year Luck Stone sets up and operates a rock crusher.
Bob Robb, our master printer, is operating the letter press with our official U.S. Post Office in the back ground. Over the last 2 years we have collected most of a complete print shop. This year we are adding an Interface Machine (below) that makes print blocks from molten lead using many different print faces (or fonts). Bobby Williams is checking out the machine that was donated to Field Day
The Tractor Pull is always a big hit with our visitors. It starts by 11am Saturday morning and 12noon on Sunday with a BIG Truck Pull scheduled Saturday evening under the lights starting between 5 and 6pm.
Friday many local area school children have a field day at Field Day of the Past each year.
One of many volunteers in Engine No. 7. Would you like to help in 1998?
Please e-mail me, Gary Cowardin at cowardin@juno.com, for more information.
Members of the Virginia Defense Force help each year with traffic control.
And there was the rain in 1997 - In 1998 Field Day is moved back a month in the hopes of better weather.
In 1997 our sawmill was named after its founder, Earl Liesfield, who passed away on March 28, 1997.
Joseph E. Liesfield, Jr.(left) and Stockton Cooper listen as Boll Hoitt reads the proclamation that named the mill the "Earl Liesfield's Mill."
That hot cup of coffee on a cold wet morning...