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Rural humor with a gear head touch- “Where Mark Twain meets Car Talk”
By Ted Kalvitis · Launched 2 years ago
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Barn Cats
At 63, Rosalee, our neighbor across the field to the west, was imagining her relevance to be slipping away. That's kind of early, but it does happen. I harbor hopes of being spared this experience as long as I can continue to entertain you, dear reader. However, I already have to…
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An Appeal to Readers
Dear Reader, My co-writers, ie: folks that occasionally give me a break from Granny Gear, my rural end-page humor column in Vintage Truck Magazine, are…
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Jul 15
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A Manual for Old Tractor Magazine Editors
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Jun 13
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Twenty Years on The Farm
(First published in The Hampshire Review, West Virginia's oldest newspaper, April 5 2017) This is a special time for me and the 300-acre private 1950's…
Ted Kalvitis
Jun 6
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No One is Immune From the John Deere Collector Bug
We rented the old Cold Stream store and post office as our residence circa 1978 to '82. Cold Stream was once a community along—of all places—Springfield…
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May 15
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Fires In Oil
The old barn find is finally running and sounds just like an old tractor—a two cylinder John Deere. But it's not a two cylinder John Deere—one or more…
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May 8
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Knob Road
If the work is done and the day still young, a ride through the back roads in an antique truck is often in order. Since my work truck is only months…
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Apr 26
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You Might Be Lithuanian if...
The Lithuanian population of our West Virginia county shrank by a large percentage with the passing of Stanley Klimas, and our three daughters moving…
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Apr 18
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