Over a hundred people gathered today to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Roof Garden Tractor Buddies.
The Roof Garden Tractor Buddies are a group of square dancing tractors here in Somerset county. They started in 2003 and have since grown in popularity and membership.
Bill Blough is a local farmer and founder of the group. He came up with the idea after reading a newspaper article about dancing tractors in Iowa and decided to create something similar here.
“ I was born and raised on a farm," said Blough. "I’ve been driving tractors since I’ve been about 5 years old and started square dancing when I was 9 and we just started putting those things together."
When asked about what he thought about this being the 20th anniversary of the dancing group, Blough said;
“ it’s been an exciting adventure, some people told me it would never get off the ground when I started it but here we are today and it has gotten off the ground and I think it flew quite well."
You can support the group by attending their events or even joining in as they are always looking for new members.
