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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Your Sunday Boring Postcard from Michael5000


PICKING TOBACCO IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY

Connecticut is famous for Shade Leaf Tobacco

Provenance: Sent by occasional L&TM5K commenter Heatherbee, July 2010.

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4 comments:

  1. I think that's the "funny" kind of tobacco right there.

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  2. my parents came to this country after ww2 and we grew up picking shade and helping put up leaves
    Never thought of it as tedios but am sure my parents did - sticky stuff tobacco

    we really young ones were not allowed to get that on us - make you sick - parents oiled hands

    michelle

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  3. Michelle -- Was this in Connecticut by any chance?

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