Farms: This is a Memory: Growing Up in North Carolina Tobacco

In September, Duke Homestead hosted the site's annual Harvest and Hornworm Festival. There volunteers demonstrated harvesting and curing tobacco. As one of North Carolina's major cash crops, life on a tobacco farm is a part of our state's cultural history. Here, women who grew up on tobacco farms in North Carolina share their memories of looping (or tying) tobacco during harvesting season.