I don't have anything against the show. I couldn't go because I was working in the Adirondacks, that's all.
But yes, I liked the show better during the first couple of years in Roseboom. With small shows, I tend to see a lot more "hands on" and innovative type people. Big shows have them of course, but also attract many that just buy something, restored by someone else, just to show off.
From what I've seen around here for past 35 years, real engine guys are tempermental (as I am) and a lot of in-fighting goes on. That's why these shows tend come and go.
My wife helped run the tractor/engine/steam show in Delaware County every year at Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith, for 15 years. Every year some engine club would get mad and boycott the show, and then another would take its place. This stuff goes around and around. That show finally got ruined beyond repair. Especially when the biggest engine/tractor guy there died (Dan Rion from Prattsville).
A long-time friend of mine was asked to come to the Roseboom show this year to drive one of his former family farm's tractors. He's a retired Otsego County dairy farmer and has been living in Florida for the past 15 years. He still owns 100 acres here and camps here a few months every summer. His farm was once a John Deere dealership. Someone at the Roseboom show has his old Deere 530 and 620, and most years they have him come and drive one of his old tractors in the parade. This year, he went back to Florida a week early.
Last year, there was a tractor magazine writer/reporter at the show. They did a story on my friend and his Deere tractor and boy, they got everything wrong in the story. Can't recall the name of the new magazine, but it was supposed to focus on tractors and their life history, following the tractors from when they were new to where they are now.
So, to be clear - I'm not against big shows. I just have a personal preference for the smaller ones. More fun and more interesting to me. I still go go both when I can.
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