Tobacco Road Revisited

[woodsroad]

From today’s edition of Lancaster Farming:

“Lancaster County farmers move bales of tobacco to a receiving station Wednesday in New Holland, Pa. Tobacco farmers will be stripping and baling their harvest and delivering it to buyers during the coming weeks.”

Photo by Art Petrosemolo

 

[jpberg]

I thought this was the Erskine Caldwell thread.
Sorry.

 

[warren]

Looks a bit like Burl standing in the wagon.

 

[vosBghos]

Have a friend just moved back there I'll have to visit him next time out hear its a really nice place.

 

[woodsroad]

Have a friend just moved back there I'll have to visit him next time out hear its a really nice place.

I live two counties east of Lancaster. New Holland is about an hour west, over country roads. The county has a huge economy, not just from ag, but also manufacturing. I go out there for building materials (at a lumberyard run by Old Order Mennonites) which are better quality and cheaper than anything around here.

 

[georged]

Not the pop-flavored original, but mega-bluesified by the Animals a few years later.

Live and burnin' the house down:

 

[huntertrw]

From the book by Erskine Caldwell. Note that the book was better than the poster (below) for the movie that followed!

 

[woodsroad]

“1940 NO. CAROLINA TOBACCO PLANTER'S FAMILY”​

10 yr. old tobacco picker on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Gildersleeve, Connecticut August 6, 1917


Child picking cotton that will be used to make pipe cleaners.

 

[Jbrewer2002]

I live two counties east of Lancaster. New Holland is about an hour west, over country roads. The county has a huge economy, not just from ag, but also manufacturing. I go out there for building materials (at a lumberyard run by Old Order Mennonites) which are better quality and cheaper than anything around here.

I have a few customers in manufacturing around New Holland ( Honey brook and Leola) . I like that area.