Connecticut Valley Tobacco
Connecticut Valley Tobacco

Author: Brianna E. Dunlap

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1439657556

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Cigar tobacco runs in the blood of Connecticut River Valley farmers. Delve into the surprising history of the region's most iconic crop, all the way back to early Native American uses and the boom of the Civil War. Though fashionable in the 1950s, the popularity of cigars declined a decade later, nearly destroying the region's tobacco industry. A resurgence in the 1990s brought new life to the crop, and the reopening of Cuba in 2015 added a new chapter for cigar tobacco. Brianna Dunlap, director of the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum, provides a guide to important tobacco landmarks from East Haddam to Brattleboro, featuring stunning photography from Leonard Hellerman. It is the story of the people--the farmers and field hands--who made tobacco the soul of the valley.

Connecticut Valley Vernacular
Connecticut Valley Vernacular

Author: James F. O'Gorman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2002-07-31

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780812236705

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In this book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires."--BOOK JACKET.

Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley
Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley

Author: Darcy Cahill

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764332043

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Over 200 beautiful colour photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delivers a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and an agricultural perspective through the changing seasons. Readers will enjoy an overview of the tobacco industry from the farmer's perspective and tour the valley's rich agricultural history, using interviews and hands-on research to captured the essence of this special crop. Learn why it is still an important part of life for the region and how Yankee ingenuity married form and function to solve unique problems presented by fickle weather conditions. Further, the text explores the construction and unique features of tobacco sheds, and how some historic sheds have been transformed, given new life and new uses. This book will be treasured by everyone fascinated with farm architecture and rural New England life.