Several other events take place during Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival weekend, including pancake and sausage meals, an arts ...

Case in point: The Allis Chalmers Model U tractors that set land-speed records in the 1930s. That’s right, racing tractors. Allis Chalmers built just about anything at the turn of the 20th century.

Picture 63,000 dying tractors cobbled with scrapped parts ... and found a machinery fit in the expired patent design of an Allis-Chalmers Model G. Introduced in the 1940s, the G was designed ...