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WMSTR, or the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion, is an annual, non-profit "steam meet" held in the small town of Rollag, Minnesota.It takes place over the weekend of the US Labor Day holiday (first Monday in September), and draws around 80,000 visitors during the four days of the event.
Each year, the National Threshers Association reunion/show features approximately 50 steam engines - all operating - in addition to hundreds of gas tractors and gas engines. Daily demonstrations include wheat threshing, straw baling, sawmill, a shingle mill, farm plowing, and machinery parades with covered grandstand seating for spectators.
Almelund is also well known throughout east–central Minnesota for hosting the annual Threshing Show. It is a sixty-year-old celebration of vintage tractors, old farm equipment and traditional threshing methods. [4] Almelund's slogan is "The Busiest Small Town in Minnesota". [1]
Walden Avenue is also in the immediate area. Heatwole is the home of the annual Heatwole Threshing Show every second weekend in August. The community was named for Joel Prescott Heatwole, a newspaper editor and politician, who served as mayor of Northfield, Minnesota from 1894 to 1895. Heatwole served in the U.S. House of Representatives from ...
The Rev. Elmer Ritzman, the founding editor of Iron Man Album (a magazine devoted to preserving the heritage of threshing and farm life in general, now owned by Ogden Publications and titled Steam Traction Magazine) was a major proponent of the first R&T show, and served as an R&T director for many years.
The Nowthen Threshing Show has been an annual event for over 40 years. It is a three-day event that takes place during the third full weekend in August. There are many attractions including tractor pulls, music, sawmill demonstrations and more.
Steam engines on the grounds. The Central North Dakota Steam Thresher's Reunion is an annual event held in New Rockford, North Dakota every third weekend of September. [1] The event is held on the New Rockford Fairground, and began in 1958.
Albany Township (/ ˈ ɔː l b ən i / AWL-bə-nee) [3] is a township in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 980 at the 2010 census. [ 4 ] The city of Albany is surrounded by the township.