Belt Pulley Magazine
The reporters attended antique tractor shows across the nation and submitted show reports to the magazine on the shows they had attended. Ed Westen became a regular contributor of articles to the Belt Pulleymagazine, such as an article on Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska, Dr. One such organization that grew tremendously in the 1980s was the LeSueur County Pioneer Power Association of LeSueur, Minnesota. In the first few issues of the Belt Pulley magazine, Kurt Aumann wrote nearly all the articles contained in each issue.As a result, public inerest in old farm tractors and farm machinery grew phenomenally. Organizations of collectors were formed and began to host annual shows for the public.
His first article carried in that March/April 1994 issue was actually a legal article on the Freedom of Information laws of the states of Iowa and Wisconsin. Founded in 1986 by Kurt Aumann of Nokomis, Illinois, Belt Pulley magazine is the oldest magazine dedicated to antique farm tractors of all brands and makes.
This was a reflection of the close relationship that Kurt Aumann had developed with individual members of the Hart-Parr/Oliver Collectors Association. Starting with the March/April 1994 issue of Belt Pulley, he has contributed an article to every issue of the magazine since that time and has continued to do so down to the present time.
In January 2003, Kurt and Jane sold their interests in Belt Pulley magazine to Chad and Katie Elmore of Jefferson, Wisconsin. Although there have been local threshing shows throughout the midwestern United States for many years, the hobby of collecting and restoring old farm machinery began to boom in the 1980s. Nonetheless, the magazine sought to cover the history and the technical data of all makes and brands of antique farm tractors and farm equipment.
If any inclination toward any one brand of tractor or any one antique farm collectors organization could be perceived in the new publication, it would be an inclination toward the products of the Oliver Farm Equipment Company. Walter Chick Bishop is a retired educator living near Litchfield, Illinois. The longest serving and most prolific writer for the Belt Pulley magazine is Brian Wayne Wells, currently, of Winfield, West Virginia.
The article points out that restrictions of the use of the content and or copies of these public documents by librarians are not legal restrictions. Since that first article, every other article written by Brian Wayne Wells and Monique Carr has dealt with farming subjects of the past. Generally, his articles fall into three different categories . Toward this end, the magazine announced its intention of establishing a network of the reporters from around the nation to contribute articles.
As a practising attorney with membership in the bars of Mississippi, Minnesota and West Virginia, Brian was asked by Editor in Chief, Kurt Aumann to write the article, called Researcher s Rights and outlines the proposition that the materials held by various publicly funded archives and libraries is actually the property of the public at large and, thus, the property of the individual researcher.
