Thanks for visiting our website.  We look forward to seeing you at the Bowie Old Farm Show.

       The Bowie Old Farm Reunion, Inc. was organized in 2007 for the purpose of preserving the history, farming methods and family life of our ancestors.  We conduct an old farm show each year at the Bowie Farm in Iva, SC on the first Saturday of  October.  We welcome you to join our activities.  Farming field demonstrations with livestock and antique farm equipment take place along with a grand display of antique tractors, hit and miss engines, and other old farm equipment at the Thomason Bowie museum.  We have horse shows for all ages, gospel singing, wagon rides, and colonial activities like blacksmithing and quilt making.  We also make  surup, grits, and corn meal the old-timey way.  Chlidren's activities include inflatables, a barrel train ride and milking.  We plan to reserve space for antique dealers at upcoming shows.  Vendors are welcome.

April 14, 2012:  CowboyChurch Show.  Contact cowboychurchshow@yahoo. com

January 5, 2012

Dear current and past members of the Bowie Old Farm Reunion, Inc.:

Happy New Year and thanks for your participation with our group to help preserve the farm life of our ancestors. We’re looking forward to your help this year planning and participating in our annual Old Farm Days event the first Saturday in October. We invite you to attend our first planning and potluck supper meeting on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 6:30pm at the Bowie Barn. Annual membership dues are due in January. Please plan to pay at the meeting or mail your checks to BOFR, Inc., 1838 Warren Watt Rd., Iva, SC 29655. Annual dues continue to be $25 per person, $50 per family, $5 for youth, and $250 lifetime.

Please join us at our monthly potluck supper meetings the second Thursday of each month.  We look forward to seeing you to help expand our facilities and activities and make this year’s show the best ever.

Sincerely yours, Gary Jordan, Sec.-Tres.

MEETINGS:

You are invited to join us on the 2nd Thursday of each motnh to discuss our activities.   We have a potluck supper at 6:30pm followed by a business meeting at 7:00pm.

Thought for the day:

" Life is better when you are happy but life is at it's best when other people are happy because of you!
Be inspired, give peace and share your smile."

Thanks to an excellent team of volunteers, a new 16X20 foot covered music stage was built over the past few weeks. Down cedar and popular trees were chain sawed in the woods close to the riding trails and transported to the new ground across from the museum where Harold Crane’s sawmill was used to cut the lumber for construction.  We sincerely thank the following people and others who contributed to this fantastic project: David Rainey, Harold Crane, Dan Ertzberger, Tim Rainey, Ken Jordan, Johnny Pierce, Josh Holden, and Barry Davis.

Arena Open or Closed?

Arena open.

5/6/12

Gary Jordan:  Home phone:  864-348-3675;  cell phone 864-314-4333

Ken Jordan:  Cell phone:  864-314-5082

Rev. Barry Davis:

David Rainey:

New addition to museum.  Thanks to Pat Carpenter for the great refinishing job and Pam Farmer for providing the tractor in memory of her father.

The following antiques were generously donated by Norm and Wilma Powell in memory of Wilma's father, W. Y. Broadwell, owner of Broadwell's Old Mill located on Generostee Creek.  Thanks for these additions.

Occasionally some of our guests forget and leave the water faucets turned on after watering their horses and our water bill skyrockets.  You are welcome to the water but please turn it off after you finish.  Thanks.