On a sunny day in the mid-1960s, a young Danny Lynn Clark watched as his father, Robert E. Bobby Clark, rumbled down the road toward their family farm in Lucedale, Miss., aboard a rust-red Model A Farmall tractor. The elder Clark had purchased the tractor—a one-plow model produced throughout the 1940s—from a vendor some seven miles away and driven it down the highway to get it to the farm.
From the time Clark was 7 years old, his father let him use the Farmall to pull a ground sled to plough the family’s pea and butter bean fields. By 1978, the elder Clark sold the Farmall and brought home a Long 445 model tractor in its place, which Danny Lynn Clark has kept running for more than 50 years and still uses on that same farm in George County to this day.
“That tractor is made of good steel, has quality engineering in it and doesn’t burn much fuel,” Clark says. “While a lot of newer models seem like they’re made to throw away eventually, the old ones could run forever. It didn’t need computers or sensors and I think some of that technology makes it harder to keep them running.”
Clark’s love for farm life and older models of tractors and engines eventually grew into a desire to share his knowledge and interests with younger generations. He and his father often watched R&F Farm Supply shows together on television, prompting his father to ask if Clark could get the company to come down and do a show in Lucedale. After several years of attempts, Clark decided that the best approach would be to put on a tractor show of his own, leading him to establish the Good Ole Days Festival on March 31, 2012.
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Clark worked together with Annis Dailey, a member of the Lucedale Chamber of Commerce and former member of Habitat for Humanity, to initially host the Good Ole Days Festival at a fairground just
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