PUTTING IN TOBACCO
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Old curing barn sits idle near Murfreesboro
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Golden leaf gets modern ride to market, 2001
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Chopped school bus replaces the mule and cart of yesterday
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Grading tobacco in the old days
(Photo from "Sally's Family Place" website)
This picture was taken around 1952 by photographer Robert C. Avery.
The little girl at the left is Dianne Pierce Perry Cobb.
The adults are Alice Harrell Avery, wife of the
photographer, and Kenneth P. Harrell
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To find Sally Moore Koestler's "Family Place," look ~~~~~~~~~
Hanging tobacco in the old barn
from "Sally's Family Place" website,
Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald staff photo
under "Quick Links" at the Poor Town book titles