By JoAnn Biren
Fulda Free Press staff writer
If an adult had asked Ryley Thraen two and one-half years ago a question about a Ford tractor from his great-grandfather’s era he might have been able to answer the question, but he would have hesitated. He didn’t like talking to adults much. He was a quiet youngster, more comfortable at home with his brother; certainly not dickering with adults older than his parents on a piece of farm equipment on the phone, via computer or in person.
What changed him into a youngster who is animated when talking about an old tractor, or his pride and joy, a Dearborn Wood Bros combine?
By the way, it is a sweet machine! No wonder he is exuberant in his description and anxious to have anyone who expresses an interest lured to the machine shed to look at the red beauty. “I’d say this is rare,” he said of the machine with just a tad bit of pride coming through in his conversation.
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