Pasto Ag Museum at APD 2016

Posted: August 5, 2016

Annual Silent Auction Tuesday and Wednesday (til 3pm) inside the museum. Take home a little history. Place your bids early and often—this is the single biggest fund raiser for the museum! Proceeds will support building more interactive museum exhibits. Champion Threshing Demo Tuesday 11am & 2pm, Wednesday 11am & 6pm, Thursday 11am at the “top of Main Street”. Axe Whisperer Tuesday 4pm inside the museum. Name that COW! Help us name our newest volunteer – a fiberglass milking cow. She’ll be pastured with the USDA-Ag Research Service during APD in booth CEA14 near the Harrington Building and Corn Maze. (After APD she’ll rejoin us in the museum. Plan to join us when we’ll announce her chosen name at our Ice Cream Social Sunday November 6.) Centre County Historical Society shares “Everyday Objects” Penn State University Press features their newest release Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers—A Visual History of Pennsylvania’s Railroad Lumbering Communities; The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke, by Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell with an Introduction by Linda A. Ries (See Monday October 10th for related lecture at the museum this Fall!) Throughout the museum you’ll see new exhibits and displays that share some of the history of the agricultural equipment and research exhibited all over the APD grounds this week! We’re open til 8pm on Wednesday so you can enjoy amazing fried mushrooms, superb ham & bean soup, and fabulous milk shakes for a perfect APD dinner out with the family!