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This will be another short post. I’m trying to make up for the longer post on Monday, and Saturday, and this coming Saturday when Damyanti joins David and me at the bar. These barns were captured on my way to the Four Town Fair in Somers, Connecticut. Some of the barns are in Enfield. Some might be in Ellington, but they’re all around the area. There is no shade tobacco being grown here any longer, but some farmers still grow tobacco that gets chopped up for cigar filler. Shade tobacco was used exclusively for the outer wrappers of cigars.
Tobacco barns used to be found all up and down the Connecticut River Valley. Now they are somewhat rare. Most of the ones around us, due to our proximity to the airport, have been replaced by warehouses. Farther out, some have given way to housing developments, and some farms have switched to other crops (hops, and evergreens).
Somers, Connecticut is horse country, so as I got closer, the barns began to change. I still like the tobacco sheds, but you have to give the blue ribbons to the barns on the horse farms.
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