CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY SCATTERED OVER THE LANDSCAPE, LIKE SO MANY MATCHSTICKS FOR MUCH OF THE YEAR. THESE OLD STRUCTURES GIVE OFF A FORLORN AIR OF ABANDONMENT. RELICS OF SOME DISTANT AGRARIAN PAST.

When he steps into the old white barn his grandfather built, Stephen Reeves can remember climbing way, way up, into the rafters, to help hang tobacco leaves to dry. The tin roof is perhaps 30 feet ...

You really never know what you'll find down the old country roads of North Carolina. The sight of a dilapidated old tobacco barn with peeling paint and caved in roof may not be an unusual sight along ...

>> FOR DEBORAH GASTON STEPPING INTO THIS OLD TOBACCO BARN IN CONNECTICUT IS LIKE ENTERING A TIME MACHINE. >> JUST THE NOSTALGIA OF BEING HERE, IT GIVES YOU TINGLY’S. >> YOU SEE SHE WORKED HERE FOR TWO ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...

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Mail Pouch Tobacco barns still pitch nostalgia on country roads in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other nearby states. They offer both beautiful American folk art and a haunting reminder of a ...