The Long Island Antique Power Association held its annual summer show this weekend at its Sound Avenue site in Riverhead.
The event features garden and large tractor pull competitions, blacksmith demonstrations, and 1928 saw mill lumber sawing demonstrations, in addition to the chance to admire the hundreds of antique machines, motors and farm equipment on display, many of them humming and spinning.
he L.I. Antique Power Association, whose motto is “Preserve the Past for the Future,” was founded by a group of area farmers to preserve the history of Long Island’s rich agricultural heritage for future generations. Its goal was to establish a working farm museum. Today it operates on Sound Avenue farmland acquired through New York State and located adjacent to the Hallockville Museum Farm.
RiverheadLOCAL photos by Emil Breitenbach Jr.
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