Spiraling costs threaten to extinguish cigar-leaf farms in N.E.'s Tobacco Valley

[Giovanni]

Interesting article on Boston.com today about the tobacco crop in Connecticut.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/08/22/slow_burn_for_a_cash_crop/

 

[newcigarz]

Interesting article on Boston.com today about the tobacco crop in Connecticut.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/08/22/slow_burn_for_a_cash_crop/

Funny to read that. I worked a summer doing that as a teenager growing up in CT. Not a job you ever wanted to do again. :2

 

[volfan]

I worked 9 summers in a row doing that and the first one was too much. And people today complain about hard work.

scottie

 

[TheTraveler]

My grandfather grew Burley tobacco here in East Tenn. As a teenager I worked with him during cutting/hanging season and, oh yeah, it's definitely not easy work!

 

[JonW]

I worked 9 summers in a row doing that and the first one was too much. And people today complain about hard work.

scottie

I only lasted a few weeks. I picked suckers and re wrapped the tops. I went down a complete "ben" when the foreman said I retied the string around the top "heart" and probably killed all the plants.
Then I came up with a bad case of poison ivy and had to quit. Tobacco rash doesn't feel well on poison ivy.:r
To this day everytime I drink Koolaid it reminds me of those two weeks.