“The Tractor in the Haystack” book launch

Grainews writer Scott Garvey will be in Winnipeg next Thursday, November 27, to launch his book, “The Tractor in the Haystack.” The launch and book signing starts at 7:00 pm at the McNally Robinson store at Polo Park Shopping Centre.

The book is a collection of stories from old-tractor hunters around the world. “Each segment focuses on a hunt for a particular old tractor. Some are intentional hunts for a particular machine while others are accidental finds,” Scott says. “I managed to get stories from Canada, the U.S., England, New Zealand and Italy.”

The book has photos of these tractors as they were pulled out of collapsed sheds, overgrown brush or some other place, Scott says.

Here is the promo McNally Robinson posted: “This book tells dozens of stories of such discoveries, of the treasured old tractor parked in a shed since 1927, of the pristine model unearthed at an estate sale, of the broken-down old beauty stashed in a barn where generations of children have made their secret hideaways.”

If you can’t make the Winnipeg launch, ask for the book at your favourite bookstore or order it online. It would make a great Christmas gift for tractor lovers.