Tractor-town farewell

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: In southeastern Michigan, the senior class at Airport High School marked graduation the way they know best: By causing a minor traffic jam with farm equipment.

It’s called Tractor Day. This is a tradition stretching back decades.

Students leave the cars at home and they roll into school on tractors, four-wheelers, and other off-road vehicles.

AUDIO: I think we’re just a farm school. I mean, it’s a tradition. Everyone’s done it before us. We just carry it on.

One senior arrived in a restored tractor once owned by his great-great-grandfather.

Another drove the same tractor previously used by sisters and cousins.

This graduating senior said:

AUDIO: I view it as one final hurrah.

A final hurrah: a sort of last recess before adulthood shifts everybody into a higher gear.

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