Tractor Ride: Saturday, August 1st @ the Dexter Roundhouse Drivers and spectators welcome!
BREAKFAST WILL BE SERVED 6:30-9am, "FAST TRACTORS" DEPART ROUNDHOUSE @ 8am Our sixth annual tractor ride will features tractors past and present as they travel a predetermined route and stop for refreshments and reminiscing along the way. This year's route will feature our eastern gateway and the original 1913 route towards the Earlham area. We'll also be guiding you past the famous Bonnie & Clyde Shootout site as well as the farm fields of the 1948 National Plowing Match attended by President Harry Truman. The Roundhouse will also be hosting a fundraiser lunch of burgers, hot dogs and root beer floats at the conclusion of the ride. Registration forms are due July 15th and can be downloaded below. For more information, please contact Ron Partlow at 641-740-0340.
TRACTORS, TRACTORS, TRACTORS!! New this year will be displays of Toy Tractors and Pedal Tractors at the historic Dexter Roundhouse open throughout the day. Older tractors that travel 10mph or below will be lined-up from 9:30-11am on Dexter's main street and the "slow tractor" parade will begin at 1:30pm. For more information on the tractor displays and parade, please contact Ray Clayton at 515-745-0428.
In the meantime, check out our new Reflections Along the White Pole Road book. It's available for $25 and features a foreword written by Loren Kruse, Editor-in-Chief of Successful Farming; photography by Timothy C. Florer of Rural Iowa Ruins and Against the Current; and short recollections from older residents as interviewed by area students.
Visit one of these locations to purchase your books. You'll save money by buying local.
ADAIR- Rolling Hills Bank & Trust, Exchange State Bank CASEY- Rolling Hills Bank & Trust MENLO- Rolling HIlls Bank & Trust, Kalbach Station STUART- Rolling Hills Bank & Trust, First State Bank, Morrison Chevrolet DEXTER- Drew's Chocolates
This book project was made possible by the Empowering Adair County Foundation, the Guthrie County Community Foundation, West Central Cooperative, Adair and Guthrie County Farm Bureaus and the communities of Adair, Casey, Menlo, Stuart, and Dexter, Iowa.
