Keeping Country Ways Alive
Clayton Ballard oils vintage farm machinery at Cotton Ginning Days, 2006. Photo by Brittany Randolph, courtesy of Gaston Gazette.
Cotton Ginning Days can best be described as three wonderful days where old men gather with old machines and young people come to learn about both.
- Self-described "Gaston County good ol' boy" Bill Melton
Gaston County's annual Cotton Ginning Days festival gives older farm families a chance to show off Southern country traditions and pass them along to younger community members.
