The work ethic was ingrained years ago into even the youngest of children. The duty of work was presented as a privilege to young children carrying refreshment to the threshers. These men are threshing with steam power right in the field rather than processing the crop in the barn. In my thirty-five years of closely observing the traditional Mennonites, I have only once seen this sight. Now even with the most orthodox of Mennonite or Amish groups, the barn is the location for the threshing machine. The old-fashioned threshing machines, many of almost antique status, are now powered by truck engines mounted on a carriage. Several years ago I painted a still earlier approach to threshing where horses on a windlass provided power for the separating of wheat and chaff, so Harvest Heritage provides a somewhat more modern approach to threshing. This painting was partially painted in public at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto in 1995 and later was reproduced as a poster for the Ontario Agricultural Museum in Toronto.