Hollywood celebrities

[Matthew]

Mitch glad to meet you.

His name was Kenny Lane he was from the Hartland/ Saint Albins area in Maine. He moved to Massachusetts in the mid 70s to take over for his uncle mowing the reservior for the city of worchester massachusetts. They did not allow machines so all the mowing around the reservior was done with horses. Kenny made his living with horses he mowed for the city,did logging and firewood, and did sleigh rides and wagon rides. He probably taught a hundred people how to drive horses. He was a wealth of knowladge and is very much missed.

[Matthew]

Mitch glad to meet you.

His name was Kenny Lane he was from the Hartland/ Saint Albins area in Maine. He moved to Massachusetts in the mid 70s to take over for his uncle mowing the reservior for the city of worchester massachusetts. They did not allow machines so all the mowing around the reservior was done with horses. Kenny made his living with horses he mowed for the city,did logging and firewood, and did sleigh rides and wagon rides. He probably taught a hundred people how to drive horses. He was a wealth of knowladge and is very much missed.

[Carl Russell]

goodcompanion;14390 wrote:

I would argue that trying to breed and subsequently eating eating Brittany Spears puts you on just about an intimate basis as you can possibly get.

I wasn’t going to go there….:eek:

Carl

[ngcmcn]

Brittany SpeerRibs ????

[OldKat]

@Matthew 14380 wrote:

The more posts I read about my initial thread the more I feel I chose the wrong words to decribe these men. Even though I do not know them personaly and have never met them I see their names and faces and what they have acomplished and am shure they did not do it for any one but themselves and familys. I still have a great admiration for these men, what they do how they make a living and the skill and knowladge they possess. We all have mentors and people we look up to no matter how old we are and I am shure even these men have people they look up to. When I was younger I met a old timer from Maine who dropped out of school when he was 15. This man made his living until his death with horses. He never had any money and is clothes, trucks and harness were on borrowed time, but I thought this man walked on water. This old man who walked slow, was frail and in pain from a hard life and athritis was my hero. Thair was no one else I wanted to be like. He taught me so much, I would go to picnics with 100 people and you would find me talking to this old man takeing in his every word. Im shure we can all relate to some one like this at one time in our lives. I should re title this post GREAT MENTORS. Besides you cant pull a horse trailer to good with a limo.

That is kind of what I thought when you made your initial post, but it was your thread so I wasn’t going to be the one to bring it up. I think the celebrity part MAY apply, at least to those people that are interested in the sort of subjects that come up on this forum. However I suspect that folks like Carl, Jason, Lynn Miller, Doc Hammil and others who have been visible in the animal powered circles are probably content to let their work speak for them, and not look so much to the adoration the public may seek to heap upon them.

The Hollywood part? That is for sure a misfit. I never have been inclined to put much stock in what those people have to say and the more I watch their actions and reactions the more I feel that, for the most part, those are the biggest bunch of phonies and narcissists that ever existed. Surely not in any fashion reflective of the folks on this site and in the draft animal powered industries that many of us have come to admire.

Still, your point is well taken; this site is fortunate enough to be frequented by some solid folks, who have some real world, hands on experience in the things that we are interested in. It may have been said before on another thread, but it bears repeating; with so many of the old time mentors, like your friend in Worchester, (rhymes with “rooster”) no longer around this place is a good option to go get some cyber mentoring from some folks who know of what they speak. I am tickled to have the opportunity to learn what they have to say.

[Draft Horse Photos]

Matthew, If you shake hands with Sam Rich, be careful! That man has the biggest hands that I know of. I shook his hand at the National Plowing Contest in Dayton Ohio 3 years ago and I felt like I was putting my hand into a catchers mitt. However, when he puts those hands to work with a walking plow he sure knows what he is doing. Here is a photo of him at work! [IMG]http://www.drafthorsephotos.com/2008-08-30%20US%20Plowing%20Contest/2008%20US%20Plowing%20Monday%20Competition/album/slides/2008-09-01-8381.html[/IMG]

[Draft Horse Photos]

Matthew, If you shake hands with Sam Rich, be careful! That man has the biggest hands of anyone I know of. I shook his hand at the National Horse Plowing Contest in Dayton, Ohio in 2008 and I felt like I was putting my hand into a catchers mitt. However, when he puts those hands to work with a walking plow he sure knows what he is doing. Here is a photo of him competing at that event! It was over Labor Day weekend and it was really hot. Sam’s shirt was a light tan color when he started plowing his assigned plot. As you can see, he was wringing wet by the time he finished.

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