SKIPTON — When marine engineer Jeff Greenblatt of Granite, Md., flips an electric switch, the museum comes alive with whirring belts turning shafts and rods along the ceiling and down to the floor.

John Pawleski likes to think of the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association’s sprawling museum grounds a mile north of Kent Center as sort of a “Sturbridge Village of industrial history.” And, ...

This place boasts some serious heavy metal: vintage tractors, steam-powered machinery, and a machine shop full of antique industrial lathes, drill presses, and mills. Also on the property is the Rural ...