John Wright III set out Monday to achieve hometown glory. The Middletown farm boy has been visiting The Great Frederick Fair tractor pull since he was 4; he built his own tractor in high school.

The first recorded tractor pull likely was held in 1939 in Missouri on a farm. “Farmers wanted to go home with the bragging rights on who had the better tractor,” said Dennis Thomas, who has run the ...

PEPPERELL — The sounds of pfft, pfft, pfft, (wait…) phew and the aroma of burning gasoline could only mean one thing: The Pepperell Crank Up was in town. Since 1975, fans of antique engines and ...