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Event:
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Homer Historical society Car, Truck and Pedal Bike Show
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Date:
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Sunday, July 26th, 2015
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Time:
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9:00 AM − 3:00 PM
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Organization:
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Homer Historical Society |
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Location:
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Blair Historical Farm
26441 M-60 East
Homer, MI
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Cost:
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$10 registration per car, truck or bike; no charge for spectators
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Contact:
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Christine Miller
Phone: 517-568-3278
Click Here to Email
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Description:
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Homer Historical Society’s 15th annual
car, truck and pedal bike show
HOMER—The Homer Historical Society’s 15th annual car show will be held Sunday, July 26 at Blair Historical Farm. The show features all makes, models and years of cars, trucks, and vintage pedal bicycles.
Blair Historical Farm is one-mile east of Homer at 26441 M-60 East. Car show registration will be from 9 a.m. until noon with a $10 registration fee for each vehicle and pedal bicycle shown. Admission is free for spectators not showing a vehicle.
Goodie bags will be given to the first 50 entries, and dash plaques will be given to the first 100. Trophies for the top 20 cars, Best of Show, and two vintage bicycles will be presented at 3 p.m.
There will be 50/50 drawings, oldies music with a professional DJ, and a food booth. Craft show and swap meet merchants are welcome.
In addition to the fine array of cars, trucks and bicycles, people will be able to see some of the many historical restoration projects that have been undertaken since the historical society was founded in 1974 as a one of Homer’s efforts to celebrate America’s bicentennial.
New this summer is a 40-foot by 64-foot barn with 14-foot high doors and a cement floor. SCM Pole Buildings of Homer put up the barn which will be used to display and store large antique farm equipment like the 30-foot long Birdsell clover huller donated by John Pardee. This significant machine, manufactured in the late 1800s, enabled a farmer to separate the clover heads from the stems, extract the tiny seeds, and clean the seeds to prepare them for the next year’s crop.
But Homer Historical Society president Bruce Miller is quick to point out that the organization has many other items to display and store in the barn. “We have an International Harvester threshing machine the same size, and we have a lot of hand tools, fanning mills for cleaning small seeds like clover and alfalfa, and other farm items from the early 1900s that we haven’t been able to display, and now we will,” Miller said.
This, and other equipment at the farm, was used in the late 1800s and early 1900s when Blair Historical Farm was owned and operated by Albert Blair and his family when they lived there. Dr. George W. Blair, who was Homer’s first medical doctor and was also Albert’s father, came to the area in 1836 and obtained the farm property in 1851. His granddaughter Maude Blair donated it to the Homer Historical Society in 1974.
In addition to the new barn, the Blair Farm includes the family’s farm house, the farm’s barn built by Maude and her sister Bessie with money from their silk worm industry, the old Albion Town Hall that was moved to the site in 2006, and the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Rail Road’s Grover depot that was moved there in 2008 and restored over the next few years.
A capital fund campaign began in May to raise $50,000 to support the new barn construction along with upkeep of the rest of the property. “We’re off to a good start, but we still need to reach that goal,” Miller said. Contributions can be mailed to the Homer Historical Society, P.O. Box 146, Homer, MI 49245
For more car show information, contact the Homer Historical Society at 517-568-3278.
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