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robinson46176 wrote:We have been sorting thousands and thousands of pictures we have as I am working on our family trees. We have inherited pictures from all sorts of older family members especially those that left no descendants. In a few other cases there were off-spring but they just didn't want the personal stuff. Then of course we have boxes and boxes of pictures of our own.
Today after about a week of sorting my wife showed me a picture from the Connor Prairie Living History Museum where until the last couple of years we did live demos yearly at one of their events.
Two of those years we enjoyed the company of Roy Underhill both at his presentation and out at our location. On Saturday evenings we would all eat supper together.
I have not tried to follow up on it but one year he came out to where we were and said that he was trying to write a book. He didn't want to give anything away but he did tell us that for the book he needed to know a little about manure spreaders. Someone had told him that I was a farmer. Surprisingly there are very few farmers at that show. Most who restore and display old farm tractors at that event are hobbyist instead of farmers. We had a nice chat and when my wife took the picture below he was asking me questions and taking notes.
When we came home that night I looked in a file drawer of manuals and I found a thin booklet that was a parts breakdown for an old John Deere manure spreader. The next morning before his presentation I went to the tent where he did it and gave him the booklet. When I went in he was pulling pictures from his camera and moving them to his laptop and at that time he was looking at pictures of our grandson. I wrote my name and email address in the booklet and told him that if he got stuck on anything just email me. I figured that he probably had an anonymous email he could use to protect his privacy. Afterwards somebody asked me if I got his autograph. I said of course not, I gave him mine.
He is the same guy off screen as he is on.
I'm in the center on the right. The guy on my right (behind me) is a neighbor who is a friend of mine and a very good friend of my son. His wife spent a lot of time at our house as she was growing up with our 3 daughters. My son is standing on my left (in front of me). The guy with his back to the camera is a friend who makes his living working for a company that restores old John Deere tractors.
BTW, the other guy is Roy...
I was the only one there that had ever used a manure spreader...
That is quite interesting! Most folks that either transfered to Lexington or came to 'teach' a class were 'unique' spirits(with a couple of exceptions:().Ed in Tampa wrote:Roy's real job or day job or non TV job (which ever you prefer) was as a Tech Writer for IBM in Raleigh NC.
