Fall is just around the corner and with fall comes harvest time. This week’s historic treasure is a corn sheller, a machine designed to make the farmers work a little easier. Corn shellers came in a ...

Bruce D. Bomberger, curator at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, say that these two tools are corn shellers. "Shelling" is the process of removing the hard, dried kernels of field corn from their ...

The sounds of cracking, grinding corn kernels was only overcome by boisterous laughter and shouts of excitement. Fourth-grade students from Creekside Elementary School crowded around the antique corn ...

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