I have been corresponding with my 82 year old uncle and his wife about my mother's side of the family. He wrote me this about threshing dinners and gave me permission to share it with you. There were threshing day dinners as Thelma remembers. We had fields of wheat and oats to be threshed...also grew fields of corn and soy beans. These crops were used to feed our livestock. The neighboring farmers all helped each other at threshing time (sort of a "threshing circle"), and a man named Mr. Wells had the "local" threshing machine. He was paid $/bushel, but I don't remember how much. The farmers' wives also helped each other when it was Threshing Day at their farm, and each took pride in serving a bountiful harvest table. Mom and the girls baked and cooked and prepared days in advance to assure that no one went away hungry. The "Threshing Circle" was discontinued just before or during W.W.II [he has since wrote and told me that they continued after the war] with the advent of the more efficient combine and the delicious Threshing Day Dinners became a wonderful memory. Does it jar anybody's memory? Does anyone know Mr. Wells? How much was he paid? I assume this was a steam engine driven thresher. Is that right? What can you share about this memory? Brian L. Cole Researching Coles from England to MD to OH