I was driving the tractor on the farm by the time I was ten or eleven; the truck a couple of years later. Stick shift, of course.
JD, you mentioned your boys sleeping at the st ock barn during the fair. When I was ten I groomed a dairy heifer for the fair. She won at the local fair, qualifying us to go to the State show in Baton Rouge. I got in a van with the County Agent and a few other kids--I didn't know a one of 'em, and I was by far the youngest. Our animals were loaded in a truck, and we all went to the big stock show at LSU.
As improbable as this may sound, once at LSU I was bunked into a dorm room underneath Tiger Stadium, sharing the room with two LSU students. They treated me like a little brother, even taking me out at night when they went to Tigertown and the off-campus hangouts. I ate in the campus cafeteria and hung around the livestock barn during the day. Stayed there a week and had a great time. I never called my parents, because they didn't have a phone.
Yes, I realize nobody nowadays would send their kid off 300 miles away with a group of essentially strangers, but that was 1951 and it just didn't seem like a big deal at the time. One thing to remember, since I was born the population of the country and the world has more than tripled. That just changes things.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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