EVERY PIECE TELLS A STORY
A lot of people wouldn’t give a horse-drawn plow a second look. But Gerald Zimmerman knows a special piece when he sees it. And for him, a wooden moldboard plow said to date to the late 1700s is worth preserving as a window to the past, helping him understand a lifestyle almost unimaginable today.
According to documentation provided to him when he bought the piece in 2019, the plow was used on a Long Island, New York, farm owned by the Underhill family, among the first Europeans to settle on Long Island. “They grew potatoes and corn and operated a
