Buckley Education Days 2026: September 23rd and 24th
Each year, the Club hosts over 1,000 fourth graders from about 12 local schools. The kids get to experience what it was like in the good old days. The kids get to ride the Club’s 1918 steam train and a 1926 coach. They stroll down Front Street with its train depot, switch house, print shop, post office, harness shop, blacksmith shop, old-time necessities demonstration building, barber shop, fountain, and the Mayfield Town Hall, which was built in 1886.
Throughout the day, the kids also experience live demonstrations of:
- Wheat threshing
- 1800s Sawmill
- Stationary steam engines in the Steam Building and a stop at the purple Whistle Tower
- Antique gas engines
- Woodworking in the huge Woodworking Building
- Foundry
- Shingle Mill powered by a Farmall tractor
- Shingle Branding
- Old-Time Necessities (weaving, ropemaking, spinning, soap-making, etc.)
- 1917 Hart-Parr 30-60, 1913 Little Bull tractor, and many more, along with a brief history of tractors
- Corn shelling, fodder cutter, grist mill, and hands-on farm chores in the Webber Building
- The kids and adults end their day with delicious local cider and donuts provided by the Club!
If you would like your school to come to the next Education Days, contact one of the following members:
Jim Luper
231-499-6574
[email protected]
Paula Tarrant
517-204-9379
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Barb Hobson
231-944-6969
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