Silo at Brunn Barn Agricultural Museum Dedicated
LOCAL COUPLE HONORED FOR RELIC DONATED TO WOODSTOCK FAIR
BY KERENSA KONESNI VILLAGER STAFF WRITER WOODSTOCK —
Last October’s addition of a 1940s Unadilla Silo Company silo to the Brunn Barn Agricultural Museum saw its official dedication Tuesday, July 17, when a small ceremony was held at the Woodstock Fairgrounds.
The addition of a fully functional period silo to the 20th-century barn was long a dream of Harold Foskett, who sits on the Board of Directors for the Woodstock Fair.Woodstock residents Bob and Myra Anderson were honored at the ceremony Tuesday, for their contribution of the silo that was moved from the couple’s Joy Road home to it’s current location at the Fairgrounds on Oct. 7.
“The Anderson’s were very supportive of this project,” said Museum Director George “Doc”
Looby. “They deserve our most sincere thanks.”
“They are really nice people and we wanted to show our appreciation,” said Foskett, who noted that moving the 24-foot-tall and 12-foot-wide silo from its former home to the Fairgrounds was not a small undertaking.
“It cost the Fair a lot of money to have it moved,” he said. “The Association and Directors made a financial commitment to have it moved and set up so that we could build up the museum.”
The Brunn Barn Agricultural museum was established in 2005, according to Woodstock Fair officials.
Foskett offered a bit of history about the wooden silo, which is in remarkable condition for its age.
“The gentleman who put it up originally was a unique old Dane and a part-time farmer and carpenter,” explained Foskett. “He bought the farm up on Joy Road and started up with milking cows and needed a silo, so he built a 1920 vintage, though could have been put up in late ‘30s. It’s a good addition to the museum.”
Foskett said that last year Woodstock Fair staff used a crane to lift the stave silo from its base and transported it to the Fairgrounds by tractor.
According to Foskett, the silo should be up and running and ready for display by Labor Day for this year’s fair, and providing patrons with a example of how corn was chopped and blown up into the silo for storage during it’s heyday.
“This was really modern technology at the time,” said Foskett. “It used to be that there were a lot of these wooden silos, but most have rotted out. It was always the goal to find one and bring it here, once we had the Brunn Barn.”
Kerensa Konesni may be reached at 860-928-1818, ext. 110, or by e-mail at kerensa@villagernewspapers.com.
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