THE DAILY PRESS, ESCANABA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2025
COMMUNITY
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concocted the idea of
the steam and gas
BOOK
engine
club
and
Cont. from A1
rounded up the other
founding members. The
first show took place
where the Chamber of
Commerce building is
now and charged a $1
entry fee.
sold at the show, which
takes place Friday
through Monday. Pro-
ceeds go directly to the
association.
Gibson, who has only
been a member of the
association since 2018,
said that he wasn’t sure
why the group asked
him to write the book,
but others were certain
he was the man for the
task.
Beginning in October
2023 — after debating
for a month or so
whether he would take
on the project — Gib-
son began collecting
information, letters and
photographs from the
club and old newspa-
pers. His past experi-
ence has been in edu-
cation, mental heath
and community orga-
nization; his trades
knowledge was in
electronics, so he had to
learn about tractors
from the other mem-
bers, he said.
“We were actually
surprised how many
local people wanted to
come and just see what
we had,” Dufour said of
the 1976 show. “The
thing just kind of kept
getting bigger and
bigger, got more and
more members.”
The first year it was
on Sept. 18 and 19;
afterwards, it has been
scheduled for Labor
Day weekend.
Yoder pointed out
that when the show first
started, a large per-
centage of people in the
area were farmers.
Now, many young
people don’t know how
crops and textiles and
meats make it from
fields to homes and
stores, but the expo
provides education in a
hands-on way.
“If you pick up a
book, you read about
steam engines and
threshing and what
they did,” Dufour said.
“You can come here.
You can actually touch
Daily Press file photo
U.P. Steam and Gas Engine
Association President Jim
Yoder sharpens the saw
blade of the mill on the U.P.
State fairgrounds in June
2024.
R. R. BRANSTROM/Daily press photo
U.P. Steam and Gas Engine Association members Jim Yoder, Mike Gibson, Skip Dufour
and Bob Willis pose with antique machines that have arrived at the U.P. State
Fairgrounds for the 50th-annual show of the U.P. Steam and Gas Engine Association.
had
by
everyone
involved.
“You don't work with
this stuff if you don't
love it,” Willis said. “But
without organizations
like this, it won't be long
before it's all gone.”
The club’s efforts
have been successful —
members reported that
young people who
began coming to the
show as children
remain enthusiastic
and that membership
spans multiple gener-
ations. The passion of
the individuals involved
in the association and
the curiosity of atten-
dees over the past half-
century have kept the
knowledge of Midwest
farming history alive.
Humbled by the
experience of learning
everything that went
into the formation of
the association, Gibson
said compiling the book
was a lot of work but a
lot of fun.
Gibson conducted
dozens of interviews
with people involved
with the evolution of
the association. Even in
the past year and a half
that Gibson worked on
the book, some of those the machine, see the
people he spoke with steam engine, run the
have since passed away. separator —”
Daily Press file photo
“This book is pre-
“Get the chaff blown
serving the history of all over you,” Yoder
the club for the last 50 interjected with a grin.
The vintage, working sawmill in the Antique Village on the Upper Peninsula State
Fairgrounds is one attraction to be seen at the U.P. Steam and Gas Engine Association
show.
years,” said Jim Yoder,
“—
and
watch
current president of the threshing the way it was
U.P. Steam and Gas done, you know, 100
Engine Association. “It years ago,” Dufour
needed to get written finished.
Narrative History,” acknowledge his 50 a.m. all four days. From
were
printed
at years of attendance;
Friday through Sunday,
it closes at 5 p.m.; on
Monday, it concludes at
3 p.m.
At 2 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday, the show
will host book-signings
with Gibson. Funds
from book sales go not
to the author but to the
Richard’s Printing in youngsters
whose
interest in antique
Like the show itself,
the book “kept growing
down, because these
Gibson said he was
Escanaba.
gentlemen (he gestured struck by the hard work
to Skip Dufour and Bob of everyone involved
Willis) are the ones that with getting the asso-
know what happened. ciation going, their
And if we don't get this dedication to the notion
done now, there's no of preserving history
For the 50th time, machinery has already
association members been sparked at previ-
are ready to welcome to ous exhibitions; and
the show people like newcomers who may
Bill Bartles, a 95-year- want to tour the agri-
old from Sheboygan, cultural museum or
Wis., who will be pre- operate a tractor for the
sented with a plaque first time.
and
growing”
as
material was gathered
from members and the
Daily Press archives.
Finally, barely a month
way to go back and from about 1890 to ago, 500 copies of the
recreate it.” 1930, the constant book, titled “The Upper
Dufour and Willis attraction of new Peninsula Steam & Gas
were the two who members and the fun Engine Association: A this
weekend
to
The show opens at 9 association.
includes the eastern end own NRC that will rec- decided to meet in the
House Bills 4783-4786 chaired by state Rep.
PRESTIN
U.P. once this year is “recognize the people David Martin, R-Davi-
glaring proof of where its best suited to make son. Prestin, Bohnak and
priorities lie. The NRC decisions about our Fairbairn are all mem-
cannot simultaneously natural resources are bers of the committee.
of the U.P.
“The
ognize the unique needs
imbalance of the U.P. wildlife, not
Cont. from A1
between the Upper and one that just forces more
Lower Peninsula wildlife mashed peas down our
proves how ridiculous it throats.”
is to try to make rules
that apply to everyone the Michigan NRC has
simultaneously,”
Markkanen said. “If a meeting in the Upper
parent has a teenager Peninsula this year.
and an infant, you don’t
about
how
their
say they can handle and those who live in the
understand U.P. wildlife U.P.,” said Bohnak.
The lawmakers said
Markkanen backed
similar legislation in
statewide decisions are
what’s best for everyone,
when those same deci-
sions are clearly putting
the U.P. in jeopardy.”
Also announcing the
plan were state Reps.
Greg Markkanen, R-
Hancock; Karl Bohnak,
R-Deerton; and Parker
and then choose to
The bills have been 2022 but it failed to make
ignore us all the same. referred to the 17- it out of the House Nat-
It’s not right and proves member House Com- ural Resources and
exactly why we need our mittee on Natural Outdoor Recreation
scheduled only one
own NRC.”
Resources and Tourism, Committee.
“The U.P. deserves
just feed everyone honest representation
mashed peas and car- when it comes to deci-
rots. You make a plan sions over its natural
that suits the unique resources,” Fairbairn
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Bureau of Professional Licensing
Fairbairn, R-Harbor needs of each child. said. “The fact that the
Springs, whose district Similarly, we need our current NRC only
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