FRANKFORT, Ky. — 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 ...
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 ...
ADAMS, Tenn. (WSMV) - Fire officials are saying high winds are to blame after a tobacco barn was destroyed in a fire, according to Smokey Barn News. Fire crews responded to the barn fire just before ...
Around each curve in rural Kentucky, it seems, there's another tobacco barn. Many of them are like old gentlemen — still handsome but kind of falling in on themselves. There was a time in Kentucky ...
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 ...
ASHEVILLE - When Kathleen Hodgson stepped into the Antique Tobacco Barn, she was looking for a coffee table but ended up with a vintage jacket that had a colorful plaid-like pattern, and an old ...
A fire that ripped through a Sampson County tobacco operation Wednesday afternoon caused an estimated $250,000 in damage. The fire destroyed four tobacco barns, a warehouse and an office on the farm ...
ADAMS, Tenn. (WSMV) - A tobacco barn was destroyed in a fire on Wednesday evening, according to Smokey Barn News. Crews responded to Richards Road in the Adams-Cedar Hill area just after 4:40 p.m. for ...
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 ...