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Friday June 15, 2007 Friday June 22, 2007 Blacksmiths Shop

Saturday June 16, 2007 Saturday June 23, 2007 Saturday Potluck Dinner

Sunday June 17, 2007 Sunday June 24, 2007 Heritage Village

Pictures and captions Greg Hayden. Friday evening June 15, FREE!! Hot Dog Dinner for everyone on our grounds. Top, top left the dogs on Jack Lesters brand new grill. Jack said he just bought it @ CostCo and it is his, but AGSEM is where it will be mostly used. Above, in blue shirt is our Potluck Chair Person Margaret Stewart. Right Colleen McCune, selling discounted show tee shirts to Hot Dog Dinner attendees.

Above right and below right our President Jeanette Stevens in Pink John Deere shirt. Opposite her in white tee shirt Jeanette's husband Mike. Serving John Deere Ice Cream. Mike had both chocolate and vanilla, I had a scoop of each, delicious Home Made Ice Cream. I will get pictures of Mike's Ice Cream Maker tomorrow.

Above left: Even in these days of $4.00 a gallon gasoline, as they have for thirty years, Rich Eckert, left, blue shirt and Pat Mackin, right, tin hard hat; drive 400 miles one way from their Prescott Arizona homes, to help us with show. Far left, in profile, Jack Lester, white shirt, black apron.

Above left: Our menu was grilled Hot Dogs, Potato Chips, cold drink of your choice, Home Made John Deere Ice cream. Above right: Myrna Bagge   Behind Myrna, Becky McKenzie.

Since Jake  Williams is leaving California today, June 15, to pursue his destiny 3,000 miles away in Corning, New York; the new Volunteer responsible for our Advance is John Alling, Steam Team honcho Dean Alling's brother. Pictures above left and right, that is John on the left side of our Advance, Eric McConnon steering on the right side. We had reported a month ago that our 1902 Advance would not be under steam during our spring show, due to a boiler leak. Take a look at Hartford 2007 Traction Engine Boiler Inspections. Pictures row 4 right and row 5 left show the leaking nipple. We had no idea for sure if this was a nipple screwed into the tube sheet, or a piece of pipe welded to the tube sheet. This nipple was the boiler's original main steam outlet. Circa 1930's it was cut off and capped, with a new main steam outlet through the top of the steam dome.

Well. It is a nipple screwed into the tube sheet. Dean Alling, who took the above picture June 15, said: We used a cutting torch to cut the inside off and then some heat and a hammer to collapse the pipe inward and save the threads. Our Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company local rep Bill Rozokat came back today and witnessed a new hydro, and gave his stamp of approval on our inhouse repair, and so here it is operating Friday evening.

6PM Friday June 15 Dean Alling picture below of Jake Williams on one last nostalgic drive of our 1902 Advance that Jake poured so much of himself into these past few years.