7/20/12: It’s Friday night at The Connecticut Valley Fairgrounds in Bradford and the sound of lawn mowers fills the air – but these aren’t your average mowers. The members of the Redneck Lawnmower Racing club compete throughout the summer but the Bradford Fair is a chance to show off their need for speed to bigger crowds. Eva catches up with the speed demons to find out what drives them.

Music: Waylon Speed, HorseShoes & Hand Grenades, “C.T. Tanker”

 

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This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2012.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...