MIDDLEBURY — Out on C.R. 28 toward Middlebury, Amish family and friends gathered for an old-fashioned good time Thursday afternoon threshing a field. The process involves separating the fruit of grain ...

CHESTERVILLE -- The new Illinois Amish Heritage Center will host its inaugural steam threshing show on Friday and Saturday at its new location on Illinois Route 133, three miles east of Arthur, and ...

This is a great time of year to be exploring the countryside. Vegetation is thick and lush. Wild flowers are blooming in all their glory in the ditches and along fence lines of every back road we ...

ARTHUR — A steam-threshing show will be held Aug. 3-4 at the new Illinois Amish Heritage Center on Illinois 133, 3 miles east of Arthur. Event hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 3 and 9 a.m. to 4 ...

Before the age of combines, wheat, oats, rye and barley were harvested with a threshing machine. My earliest memory of threshing grain is with a steam engine and wooden threshing machine. In those ...

A combine is a system that starts at the header and ends with the planter. No component functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all ...

CHESTERVILLE -- An early grist mill has been donated to the new Illinois Amish Heritage Center located one mile west of Chesterville. Grist mills, in the form of three-story buildings with large water ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ill. (WAND) - Leaders of the Illinois Amish Heritage Center announced all activities at the center are canceled through 2020. This includes the 2020 Steam Threshing Days, which were ...

Kansas author Glenn Ediger left no threshing stone unturned as he embarked on a historical treasure hunt for the tools used by the Mennonites who settled in and around central Kansas. From his own ...

This is a great time of year to be exploring the countryside. Vegetation is thick and lush. Wild flowers are blooming in all their glory in the ditches and along fence lines of every back road we ...