Country.

Tractors, farms, old-fashioned values, well-made tools, cared-for livestock, fresh food, knowing where things come from – and the work it takes to make things grow, including families, communities and businesses.

In Connecticut, Country 92.5 (WWYZ), a country music FM radio station, will be on site Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m. to noon, at the CCC Farm Store & Farm Market in Manchester for a Jason Aldean ticket giveaway with Wendy Steele. Families can enjoy the food, petting zoo, special prizes and other attractions, free. Win tickets for his upcoming concert, Sunday May 22, Comcast Theatre (formerly Meadows Music Theater), Hartford.

Country is music from the heart. Aldean, profiled as “Country's next superstar?” recently in USA Today, has a string of hits including Hicktown, Big Green Tractor and She's Country – and he's up for top country artist and album awards at the Billboard Music Awards in May – plus four CMT Music Awards in June (that's more than any other artist).

Farm Day at the Waldo Farm in Scotland is also Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Meet people who celebrate life and perform timeless skills such as building stone walls, baking pies on an open hearth, spinning yarn from fleece, shaping clay into pots, or hammering red-hot iron into useful implements on an anvil. Admission is $5; parking is plentiful in nearby fields. There are animals to meet (oxen teams, alpacas, piglets), good food, live music, fiddle playing, tractor rides, and more.

Leslie Newman of the Scotland Historical Society can tell visitors more about the farm and its history. Find her wielding a rolling pin, turning pastry dough into an apple pie crust inside the farm kitchen for open hearth cooking demonstrations, or mingling with the crowds under the noteworthy black walnut tree that shades the red farmhouse.
The Edward Waldo House was built circa 1715 and the farm was owned by the same family for seven generations. Ruth Fanshaw Waldo was a visionary who gifted the farm to the town of Scotland under these conditions: ” as a landmark of historical value and interest for the benefit and enjoyment of the public under proper regulations and safeguards, and employed solely for historical, educational, benevolent, scenic, exhibition and other philanthropic purposes.” A wise human, indeed.

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Auction of a lifetime of collecting, farm equipment, tractors, tools, feed bags, buckboard parts. June 11, Ellington, Connecticut. Click on image above for PDF, complete list.

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