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First off, my apologies for posting this here rather than under Music, but for the past couple of days, every time I try to post something in Music, I get a message that says "No Post Mode Specified," and that's it. If an admin would move this over to Music, I'd appreciate it.

I have been trying to find an online recording of "Thrashing Time at Punkin Centre" by Cal Stewart, with no success. I have tried different spellings, including "Threshing," "Pun'kin" and "Center," and still come up empty. The only mention of it on DAHR is a Zonophone disc, but there's no link to an audio file. I had it on a Columbia cylinder that broke before I could listen to it, and ever since I have been very curious about it. I would even be happy to read a transcript, but I can't find that, either. Based on the fact that I can find almost no information about it, I suspect it's one of the less common of Stewart's recordings, but I really don't know. Any help and/or information would be much appreciated.

Are you sure you have the title correct?

Project Guttenberg has his book on line but there's not a story with that title.........

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/970/970-h/970-h.htm

Perhaps if some has it they can post it it on youtube?

Yes, that's the page I found that lists it as a Zonophone disc, but as you can see, there's no link to an actual recording.

Could it be on i78s or in archive.org or in LOC?

Maybe "Uncle Josh's Huskin' Bee"?

The APS Member Resource Library has the complete Rev. Petty Uncle Josh Discography in original form:
TO Takes Census
Tn Town Topics
TR Ticklish Reuben
Tr Threshing Time
TT Train Time
US Uncle Sam to George

And also converted to Excel exported as PDF:
Tr 1696 Disc Threshing Time at Pumpkin Center Columbia Single Face
Tr 5787 Disc Threshing Time at Pumpkin Center ZONOPHONE 7” inch paper, 9” Inch paper
Tr 32403 Cyl Threshing Time at Pumpkin Center

A recording can be heard on Gio's i78's.org website:

Threshing Time at Pumpkin Center
(Cal Stewart)
Columbia Domestic Numeric Series 32403
2-minute moulded cylinder
Columbia Matrix col 32403-5

Released c. Apr 1904

David Giovannoni Collection