Thursday, September 23, 2004
Homestead sets event to preserve tobacco memories
From the Durham County (NC) Herald Sun
With high-tech machines to prime the tobacco and many farmers contracting directly with manufacturers, North Carolina's tobacco traditions are becoming little more than memories.
On Saturday, Duke Homestead State Historic Site will seek to preserve those memories during its annual Tobacco Harvest Festival.
The event features harvest activities such as priming, looping, and hanging the tobacco in the curing barn. Visitors are invited to join the looping contest at 11 a.m. to prove who's the fastest stringer on the farm. After the fires are stoked, farmers will grade and tie the cured leaves into hands to prepare for the afternoon's mock tobacco auction.
In addition to the harvest and auction, visitors may view the film "Legacy of the Golden Leaf" throughout the day, listen to The Boys of Carolina play bluegrass music at 1 and 2 p.m. and meet Joanne Sharpe, author of "Before TV -- Life on a Tobacco Farm." She will sign and sell copies from 1 until 4 p.m.
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The Herald Sun
With high-tech machines to prime the tobacco and many farmers contracting directly with manufacturers, North Carolina's tobacco traditions are becoming little more than memories.
On Saturday, Duke Homestead State Historic Site will seek to preserve those memories during its annual Tobacco Harvest Festival.
The event features harvest activities such as priming, looping, and hanging the tobacco in the curing barn. Visitors are invited to join the looping contest at 11 a.m. to prove who's the fastest stringer on the farm. After the fires are stoked, farmers will grade and tie the cured leaves into hands to prepare for the afternoon's mock tobacco auction.
In addition to the harvest and auction, visitors may view the film "Legacy of the Golden Leaf" throughout the day, listen to The Boys of Carolina play bluegrass music at 1 and 2 p.m. and meet Joanne Sharpe, author of "Before TV -- Life on a Tobacco Farm." She will sign and sell copies from 1 until 4 p.m.
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The Herald Sun
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