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Author Topic: Rough & Tumble Threshermans Reunion at Kinzers, PA for August 2020 is now, sadly,..... cancelled  (Read 536 times)

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This is not news of the welcome sort to a family that looks forward to the next year's show before getting home from the present year's show.


With a little luck, they may be able to have the fall harvest show.


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Bummer Gil, but looks like it's the same for all of our shows too  :-\

However, one July show here did set aside a weekend in October, just in case anything changes. Could be 90 degrees or 40 degrees that time of year in MN  :D

I do hope that all of the shows are able to survive being shutdown for the year... and that they do not get forgotten the following year. I am going to contact a few of my local shows and see if I can help out any days with work/maintenance, because even though there is no show, the grounds and buildings still need to be maintained.
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So frustrating!

It's ok for thousands to protest, but all of the steam shows are cancelled!

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So frustrating!
It's ok for thousands to protest, but all of the steam shows are cancelled!
Exactly.
2020 imposition of doublethink.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

When steam shows are outlawed, only outlaws will steam.

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So frustrating!
It's ok for thousands to protest, but all of the steam shows are cancelled!
Exactly.
2020 imposition of doublethink.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

When steam shows are outlawed, only outlaws will steam.

I do know of a few that will still be steaming up on the day of the cancelled shows
Nick

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In the urban streets of St. Louis today there were marches , and protest , and even the usual commonplace horrid murders that were not “cancelled”.
The wreckage from the riots has yet to be boarded up and the local TV media does some weird schizophrenic praise of the events that oscillates between gleefully reporting  “mostly peaceful” to glossing over horror-show crimes.  Thus the new normal for the “cancel culture” rolls on with chirps of social distancing and a be-safe reminders to the community. https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/st-louis-fatal-shootings/63-07fdeacd-9b14-4380-a4fd-46c39ae69c88
—— https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/st-louis-county-gas-station-shooting/63-aeb59d48-4995-495f-9f1d-d86bcc19caa6
On the outside of the city , in the rural farm towns , the tractor pulls & the county fairs, and even the July 4th fireworks shows have been cancelled.
Today when I drove past the little small town park that had bi-monthly old timer (60 year old and older tractors, and one old live-steam Case to make steam noise) all events had been cancelled to flatten the curve. There was one old guy on a green Oliver tractor , decorated with American flags and he was waving to passing cars. He was not taking-a-knee, no power fist in the air, no chanting of slogans. He could be an outlaw in the eyes of the authorities for being at the cancelled event site, but in my eyes that guy was a hero.
Nick , when you “know of a few that will still be steaming up on the day of the cancelled shows” ; please post a pic. True defiance for true freedoms are getting hard to find.



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Bummer Gil, but looks like it's the same for all of our shows too

However, one July show here did set aside a weekend in October, just in case anything changes. Could be 90 degrees or 40 degrees that time of year in MN

I do hope that all of the shows are able to survive being shutdown for the year... and that they do not get forgotten the following year. I am going to contact a few of my local shows and see if I can help out any days with work/maintenance, because even though there is no show, the grounds and buildings still need to be maintained.


I would go to do the same if R & T were not over 200 miles away and at this time they are not having work days given that gatherings are limited to 25 in the yellow zones of PA and a workday brings in about 60 volunteers.
Rough & Tumble will survive.


I may go to Kent, Ct. for a workday in August or early September. I hope they don't can their end of September show.
They have not yet cancelled their end of July gas up on the website but I am not terribly optimistic about it.
This one is close by at 1 hr 15 m.


The big Dublin, NH meet is cancelled.


Orange, Mass is also canned.