This is a Memory: Growing Up in North Carolina Tobacco
In September, Duke Homestead hosted the site s annual Harvest and Hornworm Festival. There volunteers demonstrated harvesting and curing tobacco. As one of North Carolina s major cash crops, life on a tobacco farm is a part of our state s cultural history. Here, women who grew up on tobacco farms in North Carolina share their memories of looping (or tying) tobacco during harvesting season.
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