This year brings us to the 29th Annual Dryden Dairy Day. The parade is part of a full celebration of June Dairy Month.
Dryden is a small farming community in upstate New York that is surrounded by area farms.
The parade is a Dryden Dairy Day and June Dairy Month staple.
The event incorporates local business, schools and churches for a fun-filled parade and then a gathering at the small community park.
Everything in the park is based on the goodness of dairy and dairy products.
This year the parade was dedicated to a local Grange member and longtime farmer, Roger Gleason, and the parade itself hosted something a little different.
After the area farmers lost one of the most reliable and trusted repairman in April, a local Dryden Dairy farmer was inspired to organize a tractor procession.
Troy Sherman, a farmer from just outside of town honored his best friend and tractor repairman, Melvin Jackson Scholes, Jr., in a way that would have made Tractor Jack proud.
Tractor Jack's family and friends watch as the parade goes by.
More than 50 tractors lined up for the largest number of tractors to ever take part in the parade.
As they rolled through the streets of the quaint rural town, tractors from the surrounding region showed their respect and honor to a man that provided more than 20 years of tractor service to more than 150 regional farms.
Jack was based in a neighboring community, Groton, but travelled to towns hours away. He is missed dearly by his family, friends and extended farming family.
The drivers of the 50+ tractors gather for a group photo.
I think that he was looking down from those green pastures above with a smile on his face watching all those shined up tractors roll down Main Street.
