Plowing Match
Well the Plowing Match rolled through Keene this week. We told to expect from the plowing match, 1,700 trailers in the RV park, and roughly 15,000 students on class trips, and around 100,000 people coming and crowing between Mather's Corners and Keene, but we were all in awe when everyone showed up and we saw it with our own eyes. I was fortunate enough to attend all 5 days, and I still believe it wasn't enough to explore all the places the match had to offer, for example I never really saw any plowing at all, I only watch some practice and some from a distance.
The first day I think was the best day of them all. The politicians were out in full force from both Federal and Provincial levels. Premier Dalton McGuinty was in the parade, followed by the PC Ontario leader John Tory, and then NDP leader Howard Hampton. Even some of the Liberal Leadership candidates at he federal level, like Scott Brison, Ken Dryden, showed up with the interim leader of the Liberal party Bill Graham. Fyd-L-Styx also preformed on the first day and had a reasonable sized crowed considering the sound man sucked. I had a solo set for my last official Fyd-L-Styx concert, and played the "Cow Song" for the last time for awhile as well.
My job for the rest of the week was helping park buses. It was pretty uneventful except for Wednesday when it rained in the afternoon. I was told that we had 88 buses in the parking lot (AKA the field), out of the 88 buses, 8 managed to get out on their own, the rest had to be towed out by tractors. What a fun day!!
When I wasn't parking buses, I spent most of my time wandering around Tent City to see all of the new farm machinery, the newest inventions, and the animals on display. They had a mini chicken farm in a trailer so you could see how chickens are raised, and a hog display which showed the various stages of a pig's life and how they are kept. Of course there was tonnes of food to pick and choose from for lunch.
Some of the highlights for me was my last performance for 9 months, going 135 feet in the air with Hydro One's boom truck, and the Scott Woods Fiddle show at the church on the Friday night.
Well now that it's over life is still not back to normal in Keene yet. The destruction of Tent City has began, the fire department has washed the roads to get rid of the greasy mud, and everyone still hasn't fully recovered.
The first day I think was the best day of them all. The politicians were out in full force from both Federal and Provincial levels. Premier Dalton McGuinty was in the parade, followed by the PC Ontario leader John Tory, and then NDP leader Howard Hampton. Even some of the Liberal Leadership candidates at he federal level, like Scott Brison, Ken Dryden, showed up with the interim leader of the Liberal party Bill Graham. Fyd-L-Styx also preformed on the first day and had a reasonable sized crowed considering the sound man sucked. I had a solo set for my last official Fyd-L-Styx concert, and played the "Cow Song" for the last time for awhile as well.
My job for the rest of the week was helping park buses. It was pretty uneventful except for Wednesday when it rained in the afternoon. I was told that we had 88 buses in the parking lot (AKA the field), out of the 88 buses, 8 managed to get out on their own, the rest had to be towed out by tractors. What a fun day!!
When I wasn't parking buses, I spent most of my time wandering around Tent City to see all of the new farm machinery, the newest inventions, and the animals on display. They had a mini chicken farm in a trailer so you could see how chickens are raised, and a hog display which showed the various stages of a pig's life and how they are kept. Of course there was tonnes of food to pick and choose from for lunch.
Some of the highlights for me was my last performance for 9 months, going 135 feet in the air with Hydro One's boom truck, and the Scott Woods Fiddle show at the church on the Friday night.
Well now that it's over life is still not back to normal in Keene yet. The destruction of Tent City has began, the fire department has washed the roads to get rid of the greasy mud, and everyone still hasn't fully recovered.
posted by Curtis Stark @ 11:21 p.m.
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