W.O.F. 22 better late than never

What have we here???

I am a child of the City. Grew up in the east coast metropolis. However, in the place where I find myself now, I wind up in some pretty countrified settings. One would be the square dance club to which we belong - which is a lot of fun. So tonight may rank as about the most "country" I've been in some time. The square dance club was asked to put on a little demonstration out at the county fairgrounds because there is a tractor show going on. People collect, show off, and gather around old tractors for the weekend. Obviously, as we headed off this evening, I was thinking "W.O.F. Opportunity!" so I stuffed the little Sony in my pocket.

My selection for tonight comes from the tractor show, but it ain't no tractor. There was this fellow there who collects....hand crank ice cream makers. I love how the world is made up of people who get all passionate about such diverse things (hence the quote with the fireworks that I placed over to the right). This guy talked hand-crank ice cream makers with us for a good fifteen minutes and he'd have gone on if we didn't need to get back with the rest of the square for the next tip (squaredance talk for the next dance).

Anyhow, here's a selection of shots of this guy's collection.

This model dates to the late 1800's - early 1900's, as the sign says.
We were told ice cream was made in the 1600's, called "dainties", and eaten with a fork.

This is an ice crusher. It has some vicious spiked prong-like things inside to shred the ice.

More of the collection - lots of colors.