It seems like Almost Yesterday that a “crank-in” was held in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The motive that brought approximately eighty “Crankers” from across the United States and Canada together on the first weekend in April of 2011 was the unveiling of the Erlbacher - Gearhart hand-powered, knitting machine invented in the last half of the nineteenth century in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. The Gearhart knitting machine company was used primarily to knit socks, but the machine was capable of