I worked tobacco in the early '70s with a mix of other white kids and imported Hispanics there for the season. It was gruelling, but working class kids were expected to sweat back then. Wonder what it's like now...
I worked tobacco in the early '70s with a mix of other white kids and imported Hispanics there for the season. It was gruelling, but working class kids were expected to sweat back then. Wonder what it's like now...
Same here - WNC, although the big tobacco farms were ENC.
"Wonder what it's like now..." ~ Steve
Most all NC tobacco growers sold their allotments years ago. After the spanking Big Tobacco took here, regulation cost too much. Growing went overseas.
Copenhagen snuff @ $0.23 a tin? Now near $10 a tin. Use has declined proportionately - that's economics.
I worked tobacco in the early '70s with a mix of other white kids and imported Hispanics there for the season. It was gruelling, but working class kids were expected to sweat back then. Wonder what it's like now...
Same here - WNC, although the big tobacco farms were ENC.
"Wonder what it's like now..." ~ Steve
Most all NC tobacco growers sold their allotments years ago. After the spanking Big Tobacco took here, regulation cost too much. Growing went overseas.
Copenhagen snuff @ $0.23 a tin? Now near $10 a tin. Use has declined proportionately - that's economics.