I don't know much about this book other than the original printing was in 2004 and it's full of b&w photos of tobacco harvesting in Kentucky in the 1970's by Wendell Barry's neighbor James Baker Hall. Apparently Wendell Baker used to help JBH harvest his tobacco crop.
An original 2004 hardcover copy can be found for $35, this new reprint will be 16 pages longer and will cost $21.95. I'll probably order a copy from our local independent bookstore. Anyone here on the forum have the 2004 copy?
I saw the title of this book in the article that Tom's @mso489 post mentioned.
An original 2004 hardcover copy can be found for $35, this new reprint will be 16 pages longer and will cost $21.95. I'll probably order a copy from our local independent bookstore. Anyone here on the forum have the 2004 copy?
I saw the title of this book in the article that Tom's @mso489 post mentioned.
Article Mentioning the Glories of Growing Burley :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
Okay this post is literarily centered but about burley tobacco farming. An article in the Feb. 28, 2022 magazine The New Yorker, has an article by Dorothy Wickenden, "Late Harvest," p. 32, about the contemporary agrarian writer Wendell Berry, 87, who for decades has written about his attachment...
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