SNOW HILL–Even as farm fields are being planted in corn and soybeans, farmers are preparing their combines for the summer and fall harvests.
Several Worcester County farmers, including Bill Figgs, Byron Hauck, Lee Holloway, Buster Powell, Roger Richardson, David Shockley, Jack Shockley and Virgil Shockley, are readying their machines for The Blessing of the Combines, Saturday, Aug. 2. Festivities in downtown Snow Hill begin at 11 a.m. and conclude at 3 p.m.
For the 16th year, a parade of combines, led by Antique Tractors and Oren Perdue’s horse-drawn combine, will move slowly south on Route 12, across the drawbridge over the Pocomoke River and west onto Green Street.
Parade directors will lead each combine to its stopping place as they fill Green Street. A growing hum of engines culminates with a throttle thrust, and then silence. But not for long.
Throughout the day there will be music by Mike Short and God’s Country Crossroads, food, vendors, crafts, a petting barnyard, activities for children, hay rides, carriage and pony rides and Scales and Tales.
The program, directed by Master of Ceremonies Steve Hales, includes welcomes, introductions and a keynote address by Chuck Fry, president of the Maryland Farm Bureau. This is followed by the Blessing of the Combines by the Collins Temple A.M.E. Church.
The Wheels That Heal Car Club’s show will be set up in Sturgis Park along the Pocomoke River from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For details, contact Becky Payne at 443-783-1715, and visit www.blessingofthecombines.org.
Several Worcester County farmers, including Bill Figgs, Byron Hauck, Lee Holloway, Buster Powell, Roger Richardson, David Shockley, Jack Shockley and Virgil Shockley, are readying their machines for The Blessing of the Combines, Saturday, Aug. 2. Festivities in downtown Snow Hill begin at 11 a.m. and conclude at 3 p.m.
For the 16th year, a parade of combines, led by Antique Tractors and Oren Perdue’s horse-drawn combine, will move slowly south on Route 12, across the drawbridge over the Pocomoke River and west onto Green Street.
Parade directors will lead each combine to its stopping place as they fill Green Street. A growing hum of engines culminates with a throttle thrust, and then silence. But not for long.
Throughout the day there will be music by Mike Short and God’s Country Crossroads, food, vendors, crafts, a petting barnyard, activities for children, hay rides, carriage and pony rides and Scales and Tales.
The program, directed by Master of Ceremonies Steve Hales, includes welcomes, introductions and a keynote address by Chuck Fry, president of the Maryland Farm Bureau. This is followed by the Blessing of the Combines by the Collins Temple A.M.E. Church.
The Wheels That Heal Car Club’s show will be set up in Sturgis Park along the Pocomoke River from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For details, contact Becky Payne at 443-783-1715, and visit www.blessingofthecombines.org.