The farmer I worked for as a kid in the 60 used to go down the road to the guy who sold dynamite and buy a few sticks for projects around the farm. I drilled by hand a few holes in rocks from time to time and he would blow them. One time he wanted to get rid of a concrete retaining wall on each side of the drive into his walk out basement and we blew that with carefully placed 1/4 stick charges one at a time some almost in his basement. The story goes that one time, It was maybe in the late 50 or early 60 he or his father found a case of dynamite in one of the farm buildings that had become old and runny- unstable and he decided to take it out in a field and blow it up. I still have the clippings from a couple of newspapers about the "mystery blast" that shook windows in a couple of nearby towns. The clippings discuss whether it could have been a sonic boom from military planes from the nearby Quonset Naval Air Station, or other causes, never coming to a conclusion. This story wasn't told much for a long time. I think my family was away on vacation at the time. A couple of years after this took place I started working at the farm and didn't hear of this for a few years still, and was still cautioned to stay quiet about it, he was afraid of legal issues from the authorities. This farmer is no longer living and the farm is no longer. Bought out by Met Life ins. for their New England headquarters.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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