Meet Jack and Jim, a pair of 3-year-old Devon oxen that will be making their debut at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster this weekend. The two oxen were donated by the museum’s Hoff Barn ...

On a recent afternoon amid the hype of children, rides and fried-food bliss, one very large OC Fair employee stands out from the crowd – a black-and-white, 6-foot-tall ox named Patches. Patches, a ...

Stash looked at me through his fringe of shaggy hair as I shouted, “Walk on!” He just stood staring at me with a puzzled look on his face. I was standing about six feet in front of him and using the ...

Topper and Stash stood on the edge of a ravine, a 20-foot drop, with a log attached to their yoke. One more step and they’d go over the edge dragging the log with them. It would be a very messy tumble ...

Since Calumet Avenue has punched its way through to U.S. 30, it is easy to see how land in the middle part of Lake County is likely to develop. From the overpass, one can look down not at corn sprouts ...

At four o'clock in the morning (during the years 1833-37) Joseph Glidden and his son Mark left their home, starting their day of drawing stone from the quarries in Barre to the new state capitol at ...

On the morning of Wednesday, January 24th, crowds gathered on the icy lawn of the Historic Northampton Museum and Education Center to see a rare sight: denizens of Northampton clamored onto benches, ...

NORTHAMPTON -- Motorists stared in disbelief as a peaceful pair of 2-ton oxen, escorted by police, hauled sledge-loaded, fresh-cut pine logs through downtown streets on Wednesday. "Rock" and "Star" ...

LANCASTER — Two investigations are underway after a video was posted on a social media site Saturday that showed an oxen team being repeatedly struck by their driver with a goading stick to get them ...