Now celebrating over two decades, the annual Hal Fennell Memorial Antique Tractor Plow Day will be Saturday in Christian County.
The event is hosted by Garnett Farms on Long Pond Road and sponsored by the Western Kentucky Antique Power Association. Anyone with tractors and plows manufactured before 1975 are invited to come for a full day of fun and fellowship and demonstrate the various means of plowing with farm animals and old tractors.
Seth Delany is one of the event’s founders and he says there is only one change to Saturday’s event. That involves food.
click to download audioDelany says this year marks the 22nd year for the event that began when he and his brothers got together with their tractors and plows. Ironically, he said there were 22 tractors at the first event.
click to download audioWith the fall harvest underway, Delany says there is something special about being on the farm at this time of the year.
click to download audioThe free all-day event begins Saturday morning at 10 on the Charles and Billy Garnett Farm and usually attracts as many as 75 antique tractors and has seen as many as 116 participating.
The annual event is named for Hal Fennell, who served as president of the West Kentucky Antique Power Association and was instrumental in organizing many events including the plow day. Fennell died in 2014.
