UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Pasto Agricultural Museum will be a busy place during Penn State's Ag Progress Days, Aug. 16-18, and all the activities relate to rural history.
Wheat-threshing demonstrations on a Champion threshing machine outside the museum will bring the history of early small grains harvest to life at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16, at 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, and at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18. The demonstrations will show how work on the farm was done using muscle and animal power.
The Axe Whisperer will be featured at the air-conditioned museum, located at the top of Main Street in the heart of the Ag Progress Days event, at 4 p.m. on Tuesday to share tales of early Pennsylvania woodsmen, as told to him by the historic axes in his collection. He will tell Join us to hear stories about the work of early logging and timber.