Tobacco Sheds Of the Connecticut River Valley

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Description

Over 200 beautiful color photos provide a detailed take a look at all kinds of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delivers a unique take a look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and an agricultural standpoint through the changing seasons. Readers will enjoy an overview of the tobacco industry from the farmer’s standpoint and tour the valley’s wealthy agricultural history, the use of interviews and hands-on research to captured the essence of this special crop. Learn why it’s still a very powerful a part of life for the region and how Yankee ingenuity married form and serve as to solve unique problems presented by fickle weather conditions. Further, the text explores the construction and unique features of tobacco sheds, and how some historic sheds have been transformed, given new life and new uses. This book shall be treasured by everyone fascinated with farm architecture and rural New England life.

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