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Dougherty Museum hosts Yesteryear Farm Show this weekend

Auction scheduled for Saturday
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Doug Dougherty of Longmont's Dougherty Museum

This weekend’s Yesteryear Farm Show at the Dougherty Museum highlights the 75th anniversary of the Gibson tractors, which were made in Longmont and in Seattle.

The 2021 Yesteryear Farm Show will run Friday, Aug. 27, through Sunday, Aug. 29 at the Dougherty Museum, located one mile south of Longmont on U.S. 287.

Hours are 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the museum. There is no parking fee and entrance to the show is also free.

The Yesteryear Farm Show features working displays of antique tractors and farm machinery, steam engines, stationary engines, threshing and bailing demonstrations, blacksmithing, spinning and weaving and other entertainment. 

The Gibson tractors will be celebrated as well as a restored 1937 Allis-Chalmers WC tractor, which is featured at a fundraising auction of donated items that begins at 4 p.m. Saturday, the news release states.

For more information call Harvey Nelson at 303-776-5171, Bob McCarty at 303-330-3692 or Dave Brown at 303-776-9859.