Black tobacco farmers fight to preserve a legacy despite hardship and systemic injustice. This episode explores the rich yet challenging history of Black tobacco farmers in Virginia. From the earliest ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Tom Lee doesn’t want the Mountain Empire’s tobacco history to go up in smoke. For the History Harvest, individuals and families (currently or previously involved in tobacco ...

Tobacco farming — once central to the South's economy and culture — has all but vanished from the region. The end of government support for the crop in 2005, coupled with a sharp decrease in smoking ...

ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — If there is one person who knows Robertson County history like the back of her hand, it’s Greenbrier native and County Historian Yolanda Reid. “I was surrounded by ...

The L.W. Paul Living History Farm in Conway hosted the annual Tobacco Heritage Day on Aug. 3 with demonstrations of gathering, hand tying and hanging the tobacco in the curing barn. The farm, which is ...

When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...

On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...