Harvesting Tobacco

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Lindsay Gray, the Henricus Historical Park Agricultural Specialist, demonstrates the steps it takes to stem and hand the summer's tobacco crops and discusses the history of growing Virginia tobacco. Filmed September 2009. (The cicadas were really bad that day...sorry for the sound quality!) • Music from http://www.tinwhistletunes.com • Sean Ryan's Jig performed by Tony Higgins, 1/10/06 • Flowers of Edinburgh performed by Cara Lieurance, 1/20/03 • Primary Sources: • How to Plant Tobacco, 1615 by C.T., An Advice how to plant Tobacco in England (London, 1615). Printed in The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century , ed by William M. Billings. University of North Carolina Press, 1975. pgs. 182-184.

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