Hurricane Helene, which devastated the Western North Carolina region on Sept. 27, gutted the Antique Tobacco Barn, and restoration efforts are currently underway at this historic site. Floodwaters ...

It started when farmers’ hatred of the newly organized Tobacco Trust exploded: warehouses were burned, an unknown number of barns destroyed, hundreds of tobacco farmers were arrested for arson ...

Times are changing, however, and not all barns get a coat of paint in 2025. When Scott Weber first started working for his dad in the painting business, there were plenty of barns needing attention in ...

I also began to make frames from barn siding, sometimes framing the painting in the barn’s own wood. I paint on Masonite as my dad did.” MOLARS, BOOKS AND BARNS Kroeger was born in November ...

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area who still raise tobacco. Armando Aguirre sits down to enjoy some lunch in the drying barn among leaves harvested that morning. Growing tobacco is labor-intensive work, requiring about 200 ...