Cold weather start in the old days
Learn more about taking care of your tractor during the cold winter months.
When cars went from luxury to necessity
The automobile revolutionized life on the farm and gave farm families a freedom they had never known before.
Combing a catalog to make the perfect list
The fictitious story of a farm family looking through the Montgomery Ward's Fall and Winter 1930-31 Catalogue to make their Christmas lists.
A short history of Bateman Manufacturing Company
Just to demonstrate how confusing it can be to reconstruct history, there are two different versions of how Stephen Bateman ended up in Grenloch, New Jersey.
The first real automatic transmission
A brief history of the automatic transmission.
The town International Harvester built
A short history of the rise and fall of Benham, Kentucky.
A thing of the past: Check row planters
Learn more about planting corn in checkrows.
Part 3: Alice finishes her cross-country trip in 1909
Sam Moore finishes his story about the first lady to drive cross-country in an automobile.
Part 2: Alice’s cross-country drive continues
Alice Ramsey's journey across the country continued.
Part 1: Before Thelma and Louise, there was Alice
Ninety-seven years ago this month, the U.S. media was all agog about the first woman to actually drive a car from coast to coast, Alice Ramsey.